a key person from FSF commented on the project. he didnt say it is not notable
on the other hand this is a rewrite of GNU coreutils, and as such FSF has every right to comment in the project
He did say that the most notable thing about the work was the license, which effectively dismisses the technical work as not notable.
that being your interpretation and deduction. i am a bit more empirical and judge only what he actually said. moreover i am also not that much of a rust-lang fanboy, at least not to the extent that i see every rust rewrite of a c-lang code base as a technological marvel
Sure, and FSF also has every right to tell anyone who writes proprietary software that they hate their guts, if that was how they felt. My point is that this is not a particularly effective strategy for advertising the GPL to developers.
maybe the strategy sucks, maybe not. but maybe speak for yourself. i actually like their quirkiness and lack of shyness