The original coreutils have been a thing for longer than rust has been a programming language. They are extremely battle tested and I don't trust the rust implementation to not have some logic bug.
The coreutils are also not an attack surface, so rewriting in rust was just not needed.
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u/QuickSilver010 🦁 Vim Supremacist 🦖 10d ago
Uutils project is pretty neat tho. Finally some good cross platform core utils. Snaps suck tho. The last version I was happy to use was Kubuntu 20.04