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jgarzik
The posixutils-rs project just merged a full, POSIX compliant shell.
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LeFantome
[edit: I just re-read the posixutils-rs readme and it says the exact opposite - they are NOT trying to be GNU compatible.]

There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust?

I know this say POSIX utils but it also says that it aims for GNU compatibility.

steveklabnik
> There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust?

coreutils != posixutils

That is, GNU coreutils is POSIX + their own extensions. So there’s only one project (that I’m aware of) that’s trying to rewrite the GNU coreutils, and that’s the uutils project.

However, there is also this project, which is trying to implement the various POSIX utils, and the POSIX parts only.

jgarzik
posixutils is far, far more utils than coreutils. posixutils includes awk, m4, a C compiler, etc.

At the same time, as you note, this does not include GNU extensions inside each utils.

steveklabnik
Ah yes, I should have phrased this differently. You’re 100% right.
yencabulator
They want to implement a C99 compiler as just one of the "utilities"? Somethings makes me think that is way out of proportion against cat, cp and mkdir.
yencabulator
Why is the word "Rustcraft" in the title? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the content.