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go-coreutils
A cross-platform port of GNU's coreutils to Go
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A cross-platform port of GNU's coreutils to Go
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
5 sourcesI'd love to know how this project compare to the similar Go based project go-coreutils.[0]
[0] https://github.com/ericlagergren/go-coreutils
In Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and Its Applications TodayThis doesn't seem to be more than a toy project [1]. Not to mention, it's GPL-licensed, so it's basically useless for OpenBSD [2].
[1] - https://github.com/ericlagergren/go-coreutils/blob/master/xx...
[2] - https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html C-f GPL
In Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?And Go: https://github.com/ericlagergren/go-coreutils
Does he really not know this or is he ignoring them to make a point?
In Integrating “safe” languages into OpenBSD?> - If you just wanted bash and some posix tools, the harder but nicer way would be to patch them to understand windows paths. It is not clear to me that it is even possible, for example many tools assume a path that does not start with a slash is a relative path - while "C:\" is absolute. You would also want to make more windows apps understand forward slashes like "C:/Windows". To make things even more complicated, there are NT native paths "\Device\HarddiskVolume4\Users\Bill", UNC paths "\\Server\share", and the crazy syntax "\\?\C:\MyReallyLongPath\File.txt".
One of the good things about using "newer" languages than C for building cross-platform utilities[0] is that things like that come baked in[1].
[0] - https://github.com/EricLagergren/go-coreutils
[1] - https://golang.org/pkg/path/filepath/#IsAbs
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