Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust

1. human-utils

   1 1 8 6.4 Rust

   Replacement for file coreutils mv, cp, rm, touch for mere humans

   

   I've been using the rewritten coreutils as a reference in implementing human-utils[0].

   The amount of complexity, even with pretty high-level Rust std, is still super high. So rewriting them in Rust is no small feat.

   For the file-system management ones: I appreciate the value of everyone knowing these tools, but they do have some terrible defaults, and I wish there was an alternative between using a GUI/TUI file manager and carefully not stabbing myself in the foot. That's why I started building human-utils (alas it's very much unfinished).

   https://github.com/xixixao/human-utils

2. CodeRabbit

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3. mdadm-rs

   2 1 1 5.7 Rust

   

   It's a fun pasttime. I'm rewriting mdadm in rust: https://github.com/DavidVentura/mdadm-rs

   Mostly, I am tired of tools requiring root access, or a block device, to function, even in read only mode.

   If you have a file on disk (eg: a VM's disk) mdadm will refuse to show metadata, requiring root to do so.

4. eza

   3 14 14,976 9.5 Rust

   A modern alternative to ls

   

5. erd

   4 5 1,829 2.8 Haskell

   Translates a plain text description of a relational database schema to a graphical entity-relationship diagram.

   

6. bat

   5 207 52,228 9.3 Rust

   A cat(1) clone with wings.

   

7. coreutils

   6 121 4,527 9.5 C

   upstream mirror (by coreutils)

   

   I can't find an official list of supported targets, but

   https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/README-in...

   contains notes on compiling for IRIX, HPUX, AIX, and OSF/1. So no, I would bet that it very much does run anywhere Linux runs, and a lot of places it doesn't.

8. erdtree

   7 58 2,456 5.6 Rust

   A modern, cross-platform, multi-threaded, and general purpose filesystem and disk-usage utility that is aware of .gitignore and hidden file rules.

   

   Wrong erd! https://github.com/solidiquis/erdtree

   This looks really cool, though. I might try using this as an `ls` replacement, too, just because of how it shows the recursive directory size like `du`. I've always wished windows explorer did that (do any linux gui file managers?)

9. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. linux

    8 1,052 191,668 10.0 C

    Linux kernel source tree

    

    > I wonder if Linux is re-written i(n) (sic) rust will it too remove GPL as a factor ?

    No reason it must? AFAIK all Rust for Linux code is GPL2. For example see: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/rust/kernel/al...

    If some was or were to be licensed as MIT code, there is also plenty of dual licensed code in the Linux kernel.

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