[flumpcakes]

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.

[carlmr]

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.

[diegocg]

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