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Ok if there were some rust guys rewriting coreutils with no experience in linux, but how come Ubuntu accepted it into its mainline?

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Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.

I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".

Right? Canonical wanted (still wants?) to use a coreutils implementation where "rm ./" would print "invalid input" while silently deleting the directory anyway.

I don't really care that some very amateur enthusiasts wrote some bad code for fun, but how in the world did anyone who knows anything about linux take this seriously as a coreutils replacement?

The original is GPL licensed, while the rewrite is MIT.

Was at actually so important to rush with the switch?

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