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@ -15,18 +15,20 @@ uutils coreutils
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uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI
utils in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repo is to aggregate the GNU
coreutils rewrites.
utilities in [Rust](http://www.rust-lang.org). This repository is intended to
aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites.
Why?
----
Many GNU, Linux and other utils are pretty awesome, and obviously
Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously
[some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net)
has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects
are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.
are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult
for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or
suffer from other issues.
Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utils that are easy
Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy
to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.
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