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Comment by chicom_malware

Theo has addressed this directly. I cannot find the video at the moment - it is somewhere on YouTube - but his response essentially is okay, so where is 'cat'? Where is 'grep'? Where is Korn Shell?

Everyone is busy jumping up and down and bitching about reinventing the wheel in Rust but no one has even taken the time to rewrite the simplest of Unix tools in Rust.

Not to mention OpenBSD has a rule that "base builds base" and the Rust compiler is a bloated monster that would fail that most basic task.

So where is the benefit?

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