[$] Rewriting the GNU Coreutils in Rust
As movement toward memory-safe languages, and Rust in particular, continues to
grow, it is worth looking at
one of the larger scale efforts to port C code that has existed for decades
to Rust. The uutils project aims to
rewrite all of the individual utilities included in the GNU Coreutils project in
Rust. Originally created by Jordi
Boggiano in 2013, the project aims to provide drop-in
replacements for the Coreutils programs, adding
the data-race protection and memory safety that Rust provides.