> uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. This repository is intended to aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.
> Why?
> Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or suffer from other issues.
> Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
> Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
> Why?
> Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously some effort has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or suffer from other issues.
> Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
[1] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/