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Explain the motivation behind the project: modernizing foundational
Unix utilities with Rust for memory safety, portability, modern
tooling, and to appeal to the next generation of contributors.
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We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools.
# Why?
C has served us well for decades, but it is time to move on. For new generations of developers, Rust is more appealing — and it brings real, substantive benefits:
- **Memory safety** — eliminates entire categories of bugs without sacrificing performance
- **Cross-platform portability** — the same code runs on Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Illumos, Fuchsia, Redox and even WebAssembly
- **Modern tooling** — Cargo, crates.io and a rich ecosystem mean we don't have to reinvent the wheel
- **Easy parallelism** — fearless concurrency built into the language
- **Terrific performance** — on par with or better than C implementations
This is not about fighting the GNU project. It is not primarily about security (GNU coreutils only had 17 CVEs since 2003) or about license debates. It is about **modernizing foundational software** so it can be maintained and improved by the next generation of contributors.
Ubuntu is already [carefully but purposefully adopting](https://ubuntu.com/blog/oxidising-ubuntu) uutils coreutils, and Debian is following the same path.
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