Tim McNamara @timclicks.dev · Oct 30 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.
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In case you were curious, the situation was resolved by discretely adding support to the upstream package: a
… and portability is a non-goal for Ubuntu which only has to support a handful of Linux+glibc architectures. To me it it seems that the decision about uutils/coreutils being ready for production use in Ubuntu (which it wasn't) was driven by PR rather than by people who knew what they were doing.