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Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
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Ehm, thats not what I said? Let try me again: If you write code in C and in Rust, both spend about 5 years time and check them equally often, with equally amount of experience, then it is by default easier to write the safe code in Rust. Because Rust is safe by default.
If you compare a new project to an old project, that has nothing to do with my statement.
But we have the context "Rust coreutils" here.
The statement I was referring to and answering to wasn't in context. It was an absolute statement about the language itself:
I am not suggesting that throwing decades old tested and developed code is immediately safer than rewriting it from scratch. Sometimes a rewrite (be it in same language or different) might result in better code, given time. But that is not what I was replying and discussing to.
And base64 util did become better