Rustcraft: Clean slate POSIX shell, written in Rust

LeFantome1y ago· 2 in thread

[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.

steveklabnik1y ago

> 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.

jgarzikOP1y ago

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.

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yencabulator1y ago

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.

yencabulator1y ago

Why is the word "Rustcraft" in the title? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in the content.

jgarzikOP1y ago

The posixutils-rs project just merged a full, POSIX compliant shell.

actionfromafar1y ago

Where is my posix shell with dotnet bindings?

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