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  • To add to @ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today

    The uutils are MIT licensed, simply put it means “do whatever you want with it, as long as you credit us”.
    The coreutils are GPL, simply put “do whatever you want with it but only in other GPL works, also credit us”.

    The coreutils make sure forks will also be open source.
    While the uutils aren’t closed source, they do allow you to make closed source forks.

    The uutils’ license is too permissive.




  • Mainly memory safety; split (which is also used for other programs like sort) had a memory heap overflow issue last year to name one. The GNU Coreutils are well tested and very well written, the entire suite of programs has a CVE only once every few years from what I can see, but they do exist and most of those would be solved with a memory and type safe language.

    That said, Rust also handles parallelism and concurrency much better than C ever could, though most of these programs don’t really benefit from that or not much since they already handled this quite well, especially for C programs.








  • I can recommend Germany and Netherlands!

    I live in NL myself, even though we have complaints (high taxes, delayed trains) I don’t think they’re nearly as serious as I hear from other countries (like US trans people getting declined public services, people living in fear of being deported or killed)

    Although we don’t really have affordable housing, I would say that’s a fairly big issue.

    The PPP in Germany tends to be a bit better (slightly lower wages, but even lower grocery prices and rent prices), and overall it seems people follow rules and order a good deal better.

    Overall, both are good countries to live in IMO. I can’t speak for the UK, though.


    Why did you have to say you want to be balls deep in the UK, Netherlands or Germany though…?