Ubuntu Rust rewrite failure (many such cases)>Rust-developed clone of the “date” command had significant issues that caused automatic system update checks on Ubuntu to fail to occur.What a joke Canonical, Gnome, Ubuntu and Rust are.
I still believe Rust or something like it is a necessary replacement for the cnile bullshit we've had to content with but ubuntu is doing here is just completly fucking retarded. Especially since they are only doing it because they want to remove GPL Components and replace them with the cuckchair of licenses MIT.
thank you for beta testing.thank you for reposting.and please try to find more issues with these utilities so you can own the "rust trannies". they would totally, totally, hate it.
>>107008230>uh we actually love it when you report how shit our software is
>>107008230the end users that support rust and were using this reported it after they got fucked, retard
>>107008189Bugs existed in the original but they're fixed before release. It might be impossible to develop code with zero logic flow errors etc in even 15K lines. It's just too easy to typo or copy paste a function (better than weird generic factory things unless it's a LOT of repetition) and miss renaming one of the definitions.Rewrite in Rust is just basically making a program from scratch. Probably heavily AI aided because you literally are just translating languages essentially.
>>107008351>the end users that support rustwhat does the even fucking mean lmao
>>107008548some projects like like sudo-rs started with translating C to unsafe rust using a non-"AI" tool. uutils was done from scratch and is written in idiomatic Rust which doesn't even look like C. retarded "AI" was not involved with wither.
>>107008655ogh, let me fix that.some projects like sudo-rs started with translating C to unsafe rust using a non-"AI" tool. uutils was done from scratch and is written in idiomatic Rust which doesn't even look like C. retarded "AI" was not involved with either.
>>107008189i don't understand why anyone would trade stability for security when you can make secure programs in C anyways, what's the fucking point of re-writing programs which have been developed and perfected for over 40 years?i just don't understand rust people.
>>107008548>Probably heavily AI aided because you literally are just translating languages essentially.AI is exceptionally bad at Rust exactly because you can't just mindlessly translate it. It's kind of like rewriting code to functional language. Rust borrows quite a lot from them anyway. The Rust code LLMs generate is like something a C++ newbie made and then awkwardly morphed into Rust syntax. It results in ugly, unidiomatic code that often just doesn't compile.
>>107008678>what's the fucking point of re-writing programs which have been developed and perfected for over 40 years?Ask GNU coreutils authors.
>>107008189Wow it had a bug! If it has 10,000,000 more it will almost be as bad as the C version.
>>107008189It is a good thing I'm still in 24.04
>>107008678Because the GNU utils are not free software.
>rust users in charge of writing software
>>107008210>>107008678>>107009052They want to rewrite it because Straight White Men wrote the originals.
>>107008733Not so fast, braniac.They took a utility that worked, and replaced it with something that didn't.
