Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev · Oct 30 If you visit the uutils/coreutils-tracking project on Github, you'll actually discover that they automatically test conformance over time and publish results automatically. It's improving, but far from perfect.
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So, why are they re-implementing a mature software package anyway? The main reason is portability. It's almost easier to build Rust programs for multiple operating systems than to port a large C codebase that's platform-specific.