Ubuntu Ditches GNU Core Utilities (Because...Rust?)

An employee at Canonical recently posted that they are planning to replace the GNU 'coreutils' with a Rust rewrite called 'uutils'. Why? Because Rust, that's why!

REFERENCED: ► https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu/56995 ► https://uutils.github.io/

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