[Joeboy]

Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.

I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".

[12_throw_away]

Right? Canonical wanted (still wants?) to use a coreutils implementation where "rm ./" would print "invalid input" while silently deleting the directory anyway.

I don't really care that some very amateur enthusiasts wrote some bad code for fun, but how in the world did anyone who knows anything about linux take this seriously as a coreutils replacement?