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

[Adhemerval Zanella]

> On 31 Mar 2024, at 09:44, bingmatv--- via Libc-help 
> <libc-help@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> 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++.

Was it generated using a LLM? In any case you do have some libc implemented in 
rust (the one from redox project for instance), so you might check this out and 
send patches to implement the missing parts.