BSDCoreUtils
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BSDCoreUtils
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GitHub - dcantrell/bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
https://github.com/DiegoMagdaleno/BSDCoreUtils/blob/master/src/cat/cat.c (not upstream but a port)
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Debian Running on Rust Coreutils
The Rust implementation that we are discussing is MIT licensed and as far as I know not part of GNU.
I do not believe that "Coreutils" is trademarked by GNU.
There are other projects that use the name "Coreutils" that are not part of GNU:
https://github.com/DiegoMagdaleno/BSDCoreUtils
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Have you heard of posh: Policy-compliant Ordinary SHell?
Unsure. Would BSD CoreUtils help?
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Writing Bash Scripts that are not only Bash: Checking for Bashisms and testing with Dash
This makes me want to build a container for testing scripts that contains: posh, BSD coretools, shellcheck, checkbashisms.
min-sized-rust
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The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
This is a good guide on building small Rust binaries: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
This talks about going to extreme lengths on making the smallest Rust binary possible, 400 bytes when it was written, https://darkcoding.net/software/a-very-small-rust-binary-ind...
The thing is, you lose a lot of nice features when you do this, like panic unwinding, debug symbols, stdlib… for kernel and some embedded development it’s definitely important, but for most use cases, does it matter?
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Rust wont save us, but its ideas will
Oh it was 137, haha. I will link you to this older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408906
See also https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
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Making Rust binaries smaller by default
Are you sure? If so then this is awesome news, but I'm a bit confused; the commit in that min-sized-rust repo adding `build-std` to the README was merged in August 2021: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust/pull/30
Are you saying that at that point the feature still hadn't "landed in Rust nightly" until recently? If so then what's the difference between a feature just being available in Rust nightly, vs having "landed"?
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Was Rust Worth It?
Rust binaries are by default nowhere close to 500MB. If they are not small enough for you, you can try https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust. By avoiding the formatting machinery and using `panic_immediate_abort` you can get about the size of C binaries.
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Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey
A useful reference: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
- How to minimize Rust binary size
- Error on flashing embedded code to stm32f103
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Tiny Binaries (2021)
That must be without stripping. Also there are ways to reduce binary size. See e.g. [min-sized-rust](https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust). I've gotten stripped binaries of small cli utils less than 400KiB without doing anything special, less than 150 KiB by customizing profile settings and compressing with upx, and less than 30 KiB by replacing the std with the libc as the link shows. Haven't tried with fltk though...
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Shared libraries
This is not quite what you're asking, but it does also address the underlying concern: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
What are some alternatives?
fancy-regex - Rust library for regular expressions using "fancy" features like look-around and backreferences
smartstring - Compact inlined strings for Rust.
build2 - build2 build system
Cargo - The Rust package manager
bsdutils - Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc
libgnunetworker - Multithreading with GNUnet
c2rust - Migrate C code to Rust
mbpfan - A simple daemon to control fan speed on all MacBook/MacBook Pros (probably all Apple computers) for Linux Kernel 3 and newer
regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
embedded-graphics - A no_std graphics library for embedded applications