You could make the same kind of articles for the old coreutils if you really wanted to. Just creatively “rewording” the bugfixes from the recent 9.8 release:
GNU Core Utilities Are Causing Failures [when copying between NFS and non-NFS filesystems with ACLs]
GNU Core Utilities May Cause Data Corruption [with copy ranges larger than 2 GiB]
Correctness Bugs Found in GNU Core Utilities [tail --pid may race with reused PIDs]
I feel like the reactions regarding uutils are a bit… off in general. There seem to be a lot of people who are pathologically negative towards open source projects for, frankly, bullshit reasons, like vague complaints about “Rust evangelism” (what?) or how permissive licensing is against the spirit of open source (WTF).
Phoronix isn’t helping with these clickbait articles which border on content farming and their failure to moderate their comments of course, but these negative attitudes seems to cut across sites, also including Lemmy, Reddit and even Hackernews.
The uutils team seems to be doing well but it makes me sad to think about any aspiring open source devs without corporate backing reading such drivel.
Just adding some clarity for anyone who comes by. Just like any other community, you have Rust, Rust devs, the Rust dev community, the Rust dev community social media pages, and then the public perception of those social media pages, typically driven by clickbait “articles” about errant Reddit posts. There was a fair bit of hype at one point for Rust, and given its similar applications as C++, hype around “converting” people. This became a meme a decade ago, which like all memes just became tired thought-terminating slop. Which is how it ended up with Phoronix, but still.
You could make the same kind of articles for the old coreutils if you really wanted to. Just creatively “rewording” the bugfixes from the recent 9.8 release:
tail --pidmay race with reused PIDs]I feel like the reactions regarding
uutilsare a bit… off in general. There seem to be a lot of people who are pathologically negative towards open source projects for, frankly, bullshit reasons, like vague complaints about “Rust evangelism” (what?) or how permissive licensing is against the spirit of open source (WTF).Phoronix isn’t helping with these clickbait articles which border on content farming and their failure to moderate their comments of course, but these negative attitudes seems to cut across sites, also including Lemmy, Reddit and even Hackernews.
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uutilsteam seems to be doing well but it makes me sad to think about any aspiring open source devs without corporate backing reading such drivel.Just adding some clarity for anyone who comes by. Just like any other community, you have Rust, Rust devs, the Rust dev community, the Rust dev community social media pages, and then the public perception of those social media pages, typically driven by clickbait “articles” about errant Reddit posts. There was a fair bit of hype at one point for Rust, and given its similar applications as C++, hype around “converting” people. This became a meme a decade ago, which like all memes just became tired thought-terminating slop. Which is how it ended up with Phoronix, but still.
You are right.
This is all going to backfire on the detractors when it turns out the Rust versions are fast, secure, and rock solid.
Streisand Effect.