They should relicense to the GPL, MIT doesn't preserve user rights. Seriously, I don't get what Rust projects' issue with Free Software is, providing free work that corporations can take and mangle into proprietary garbage is short-sighted.
remram · 1h ago
Developers have been afraid of 1.0.0 for a while, in defiance of the semver spec [1], in particular in the Rust ecosystem, but being afraid of 0.1.0 is a whole new level. Wtf. I guess 0.1 has become the new 1.0 after years of mis-versioning.
Those coreutils are being included in Ubuntu, call them 1.0! It's fine, you still have a countable infinity of version numbers if you need to make changes, even incompatible ones!
> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you’re worrying a lot about backward compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.
bfrog · 1h ago
It feels like we are on the cusp of finally having secure software after decades of C and C++ failing at every step.
I for one welcome our new blazingly fast coreutils and wait expecting a blazingly fast kernel to go right along with the fish shell.
acheong08 · 1h ago
What do you mean blazingly fast? I would assume Rust and C have roughly the same performance coming down to LLVM. I'm not convinced that coreutils need much security since they're almost never exposed and with the exception of sudo, shouldn't hold any extra privileges the user doesn't already have. I do welcome new implementations though, competition is always good
bfrog · 58m ago
It’s a bit of a joke, everything rust does is “blazingly fast” and has almost become a meme at this point. Though it does seem to trend towards well performing programs on the whole.
Those coreutils are being included in Ubuntu, call them 1.0! It's fine, you still have a countable infinity of version numbers if you need to make changes, even incompatible ones!
[1]: https://semver.org/#how-do-i-know-when-to-release-100
> If your software is being used in production, it should probably already be 1.0.0. If you have a stable API on which users have come to depend, you should be 1.0.0. If you’re worrying a lot about backward compatibility, you should probably already be 1.0.0.
I for one welcome our new blazingly fast coreutils and wait expecting a blazingly fast kernel to go right along with the fish shell.
I meant the rest though in a more serious manner.