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Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils, this smacks of Wayland-ism.
Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.
The real concern with replacing C tools with Rust ones is that it's an opportunity for useful idiots/scumbags to change the license to something that benefits corporations at the expense of the public.
We should be ignoring all attempts to subvert copyleft, but I know that's too high of a bar for most of you to reach.
Apple and Sony will be happy, though.
Is there any reason to think they won't?
Aren't you just an anti-wayland anti-systemd weirdo? Not that there is anything wrong with using what you want, but pretending they aren't much needed improvements in the long run is ridiculous
Yup, guess I am :) ... for now.
I have tried Wayland a few times over the past few years, probably bad luck on my part with what systems/chipsets I've had every time, that it hasn't been a great experience. But I have read it's getting there, so I expect someday I'll just switch and not really notice the difference there.
As for systemd... yeah I'll be "a wierdo" for the foreseeable future I suppose. Good ol' sysV init scripts, or openrc, have always, and still do, work well enough for me.
RIIR projects usually don't have feature parity.