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this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2023
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What for? Even if they have improvements in some areas, the original POSIX standard utilities will continue to be needed for script compatibility. You're not going to swap them out - at best you can add them and then you just have an additional code base to support with additional attack surface to protect.
The uutils project is aiming for full compatibility though, so eventually you will be able to just swap them out.
Personally, I'm a huge fan in unifying software under one language.