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Gábor Nyéki
@gabornyeki.com

I have been assuming that coreutils is relatively hard to improve on so performance is not a major motivator. (This is also how I interpreted the post’s remark about priorities.) But I have been wrong before. GNU grep was surprisingly fast until ripgrep got even faster after all.

HJVT
@hjvt.dev

This happening so soon after that one slightly deranged person posted on URLO about how uutils being licensed under MIT gather than one of GPLs is a corporate plot to destroy Free Software is a liiiiittle bit uncanny

lipinho
@lpnh.io

"My immediate goal is to make uutils’ coreutils implementation the default in Ubuntu 25.10, and subsequently in our next Long Term Support (LTS) release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, if the conditions are right" i thought this would take much longer to happen. awesome!