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Providing fodder for the “ermagerd, rust is evil” crowd, even though it has nothing to do with rust.
No it’s just a news about the pointless, corporate rust rewrite of GNU coreutils being a shitshow.
but I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?
Safe? Eh, may be. Bug proof? You need a bug proof brain first.
Far from bug proof. You can write as many logic bugs as you want (as that’s what happened here), but it’ll save you from a common class of potentially devastating memory safety and data race bugs in safe Rust.
