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Unless they absolutely guarantee feature-parity with the existing C-based utils, this smacks of Wayland-ism.
Debian is really losing the plot IMO. Glad I switched to Devuan some time ago.
The real concern with replacing C tools with Rust ones is that it's an opportunity for useful idiots/scumbags to change the license to something that benefits corporations at the expense of the public.
We should be ignoring all attempts to subvert copyleft, but I know that's too high of a bar for most of you to reach.
Apple and Sony will be happy, though.