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Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing.


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Subject: Richard M. Stallman says GNU/Linux, but Rust lang ecosystem is growing.
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:43:56 +0000

Richard Matthew Stallman tell people to say GNU/Linux to spread free software, 
but Rust programming language ecosystem is growing fastly, Rust focuses on 
memory safety. If one day, Rusty alternative of GNU software is published, but 
they're not developed by GNU project, someone may say "rust-lang/Linux" instead 
of "GNU/Linux", which is very bad for spreading free software. So I suggest GNU 
project use Rust to rewrite all GNU software to prevent future people from 
saying "rust-lang/Linux" instead of "GNU/Linux", because Rust language users 
may only support memory safety, but not free software movement. In conclusion: 
At least glibc and bash need to be rewritten in Rust, glibc is the interface of 
user-space programs and kernel syscall, I think it's better to write librust 
instead of glibc, preventing future people from saying "rust-lang/Linux" that 
may not support free software movement, since rust-lang/Linux doesn't mention 
GNU and only supports memory safety. And finally, Rust focuses on memory 
safety, it's currently safer than C++.


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