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		littlestymaar on March 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian Running on Rust Coreutils Not until the glibc too gets rewritten in Rust ;) A project existed[1], but was abandoned since then, so I don't think it will happen anytime soon. [1]: https://github.com/japaric/steed

rapsey on March 9, 2021 | [–]

https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/relibc

littlestymaar on March 9, 2021 | | [–]

Oh, I didn't know it supported Linux also! Thanks

zokula on March 9, 2021 | | | [–]

Too bad about the crappy license.

KitDuncan on March 10, 2021 | [–]

There are Linux distros supporting to musl instead of glibc and they work fine (with some drawbacks, when it comes to proprietary apps).

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