Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1007907/

Most Linux systems depend on a suite of core utilities that the GNU Project started development on
decades ago and are, of course, written in C. At FOSDEM 2025, Sylvestre Ledru
made the case in his
main stage talk that modern systems require safer, more
maintainable tools. Over the past few years, Ledru has led the charge
of rewriting the GNU
Core Utilities (coreutils) in Rust, as the MIT-licensed uutils project. The goal is to
offer what he said are more secure, and more performant drop-in
replacements for the tools Linux users depend on. At FOSDEM, Ledru
announced that the uutils project is setting its sights even
higher.