On: An update on rust/coreutils

[sva_]

The coreutils consist of many individual binaries ('utils') which are more or less stand-alone[0], so I think this mantra doesn't apply here.

[0] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uu

[jacquesm → sva_]

It absolutely does. Each utility is a program all by itself and the compatibility tests apply to each and every one of them. How fast they are is not relevant until they are 100% drop in replacements.

[btdmaster → sva_]

It might not apply for the whole project, but it certainly does apply for each individual per-command functionality (cp, mv, or even the general cross-command features like the filesystem interface).

[pjmlp → sva_]

It does, as many times as there are binaries.