Call me old school, but I prefer my foss to be linear.

Being written in Rust has mixed effects. Rust is still less mainstream than C, so fewer people can contribute. However, it does attract more interest because it’s different.

Yes, it’s “different”. That is all that it has to offer: it’s “different”. There is no other reason why people might be interested in it.

However, the reasons why you create/contribute to new-but-similar projects is to add functionality that the original project doesn’t have.

Why is that the only reason to motivate someone to do such a thing?

So why are people (and Canonical) contributing so much labor to something that still doesn’t function as intended?

Maybe we should take them that they word that they are genuinely think that coreutils would be better if it were written in Rust? Why is that such a radical possibility?

I say it’s the licensing.

Yes, I have noticed that you are very big on saying what others’ motivations are.

So the fact that it is written in Rust has absolutely nothing to do with it?

I don’t know where you are getting “a decade” from, but assuming we are using the percentage of passing tests as our metric of the percentage of “what coreutils does”–which is dubious, but it’s your metric so let’s go with that for the moment–we see in the very same plot that just four years ago it only did 25 percent of “what coreutils does”, so clearly significantly more has happened in the last four years than did in the previous six, rather the project being worked on equally hard for the entire time.

Also, you seem to imply that it shouldn’t have taken them “a decade” to get accomplish “85 percent of what coreutils does”, but that raises the question: exactly how long should it have taken exactly? Can you cite evidence that it took significantly less time for coreutils to get to the point where it accomplished “85 percent of what coreutils does” today? If not, then there is no basis of comparison we can use to decide whether a decade is a long time or not to have gotten to this point.

At least they eventually closed that barn door!

Man, I bet that, when this guy watched The Ring, the first thought that came into his mind was that the characters were being idiots by not making as many copies of the tape as possible and then selling them!

Yeah, and this policy is especially nonsensical when you consider that in most cases the programs were actually written in C.

Yeah, for me it is a matter of personal principle: I am against the killing of animals just so I can have a nice random number.

The companies that win won’t be those with the most or even the best features. AI will democratize those. The winners will be built on a data model that captures something true about their market, which in turn creates compounding advantages competitors can’t replicate.

If AI is really so good that it will democratize writing code to implement features, then why won’t it also democratize the ability to come up with the correct data model? What makes that one task so special?

Were I to conjecture as to the answer, I would say that business types seem to have a blind spot where they think that every role will be commodified except their own, which is somehow special.

Finally, the last piece is in place to begin the Year of the Linux Desktop!

Sure, but maybe that middle ground is pretty far from supporting people who believe things like the problem with Britain is that it is no longer sufficiently white and active steps should be taken to fix this?

I don’t actually care about functional programming, but someone told me that they were handing out burritos over here?

Oh, cool! I did not know that.

In civilized languages tail recursion takes care of this for you. 😁

By eating the brains of programmers who are better than you.

It would not be a bad number if you did not consider that Microsoft was pouring all of its formidable resources into pushing it.

We are not the same?

Personally, I like the idea of being thought of as a computer, as it suits my personality.

They would have had a working compiler by now if only they had taken my advice and gotten an ALGOL 60 compiler to work first, rather than skipping a generation!

Oh, my… I had just skimmed so I had not noticed that until you pointed it out…