- 22K stars - 1600+ forks - 33 releases - 622 contributors - 678 users (at minimum) - Code of conduct (with a debian.org mailing address nonetheless) - 1 distribution shipping it as default (so far)
The project has the stated goal as follows [0]:
> The uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in Rust. Our goal is to modernize the utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities. We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools.
This is hell of a self-tutorial.
If this was GPL licensed, I'd love to try these. But at this point, it's looking for pushing GNU out of the Linux ecosystem, completely.
> The uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in Rust. Our goal is to modernize the utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities. We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools.
This is hell of a self-tutorial.
If this was GPL licensed, I'd love to try these. But at this point, it's looking for pushing GNU out of the Linux ecosystem, completely.
[0]: https://uutils.github.io/