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Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing.
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Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing. |
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Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:43:56 +0000 |
Richard Matthew Stallman tell people to say GNU/Linux to spread free software,
but Rust programming language ecosystem is growing fastly, Rust focuses on
memory safety. If one day, Rusty alternative of GNU software is published, but
they're not developed by GNU project, someone may say "rust-lang/Linux" instead
of "GNU/Linux", which is very bad for spreading free software. So I suggest GNU
project use Rust to rewrite all GNU software to prevent future people from
saying "rust-lang/Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux", because Rust language users
may only support memory safety, but not free software movement. In conclusion:
At least glibc and bash need to be rewritten in Rust, glibc is the interface of
user-space programs and kernel syscall, I think it's better to write librust
instead of glibc, preventing future people from saying "rust-lang/Linux" that
may not support free software movement, since rust-lang/Linux doesn't mention
GNU and only supports memory safety. And finally, Rust focuses on memory
safety, it's currently safer than C++.
- Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing.,
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