Coreutils are now being written for Windows

[Thragg]

Two days ago as from 3/6/2026, Microsoft just announced that they are going to be writing a port of uutils (GNU coreutils but written in Rust) for Windows. This is for
GitHub - microsoft/coreutils: Coreutils for Windows: Installer & Packaging (https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils)
Coreutils for Windows overview (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/core-utils/overview)
Although I do believe Rust can be used correctly, I think it is irresponsible to replace battle-tested code with code of a language you like. Maybe GNU/Windows is coming soon, and I think it will be in a situation similar to SailfishOS but flipped. The userland is FOSS, while the underlying kernel is propietary.

 

[swaggrz]

Evendoe msys2 already exists and did that and works really well and has package support
Or wsl

 

[shekel]

Why is this a bad thing?

 

[swaggrz]

Why is this a bad thing?

Not a bad thing, more of a why tf did it take them so long to start adding useful shit rather than ai coded buggy messes that nobody uses or cares about thing

 

[Thragg]

Evendoe msys2 already exists and did that and works really well and has package support
Or wsl

WSL is slow, MSYS2 isn't officially supported by Microsoft I think.

 

[catjakker]

fuck this foodist util

 

[swaggrz]

MSYS2 isn't officially supported by Microsoft I think.

And what?
Does that mean it isnt any good