Ubuntu 25.10’s transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps.
Do I understand the article and github issue correctly and we can put away the pitchforks already because they fixed the specific part already and it’s now even more performant than GNU coreutils?
No, you are supposed to stop reading after the headline, and then make a comment, not read the whole article.
Yes
Rust is great, but might it be a bit premature to replace the venerable coreutils with a project boasting version number 0.2, which I imagine reflects its author’s view on its maturity?
Version is just a number, just like age. (of Rust, of course)
