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Another Linux utility is being rewritten in Rust (www.neowin.net)
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[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The utility? Or it being a rust program?

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

?

[–] Two_Hangmen@midwest.social 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not the person who replied, but I think they asking will the utility be forgotten? Or will the fact that it was re-written in rust be forgotten?

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online -3 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Both? I mean that the Rust variant will be forgotten. It would be just another port nobody cares about.

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

The rewrite seems to be in the original project, so a fork of the old codebase would have to be done that everyone switches to, for that to be possible

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Except that it is likely to be included in future versions of Fedora:

According to the official Fedora change proposal, the rewrite expands support for both bootc and rpm-ostree based systems, whereas the original Bash version was built only for rpm-ostree. Red Hat developers have submitted a proposal to ship this new Rust version in Fedora 43. According to Phoronix, while the plan still needs a final vote from the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee, it looks very likely to be approved. For current Fedora IoT users, the change promises to be a simple, seamless upgrade.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

I think that Red Hat porting a Red Hat tool is likely to be remembered. Clearly the intent is to ship and migrate to the new tool (in Fedora and in RHEL) and probably to stop shipping the old tool at the same time.

I fail to see how it is going to be forgotten.