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by flumpcakes 416 days ago
It seems like replacing code that has been written and used extensively for decades with a complete rewrite without a real need is more of a risk to me. Perhaps the uutils are 'simple' enough not to be an issue though.
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I think the simplicity is maybe why this is a good first experient. I think we can learn from it, more than it being useful on its own.

A lot of code will need to be replaced by memory safe code in the future, but a lot of code is not so easy to replace as something like this.

Replacing non memory safe code is good. Rewrites are unstable at first, then time passes and bugs are fixed and is no longer that