From a9786ce52804384dbf331aec43601c66dabac12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sylvestre Ledru Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 08:07:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Reword the "why" a bit (#1903) --- README.md | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index dd60d2126..da92c80c2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ Why? Many GNU, Linux and other utilities are useful, and obviously [some](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) [effort](http://unxutils.sourceforge.net) has been spent in the past to port them to Windows. However, those projects -are either old and abandoned, are hosted on CVS (which makes it more difficult -for new contributors to contribute to them), are written in platform-specific C, or -suffer from other issues. +are written in platform-specific C, a language considered unsafe compared to Rust, and +have other issues. Rust provides a good, platform-agnostic way of writing systems utilities that are easy to compile anywhere, and this is as good a way as any to try and learn it.