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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Few reasons, some less valid than others.

  • replaces GPL license with more permissive one
  • wasnt broke dont fix
  • missing some configuration features of base sudo
  • C people feeling threatened by rust
  • people hate rust's overzealous stans
  • rust community is pretty queer, so being anti-rust is a nice proxy for anti-lgbtq
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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    replaces GPL license with more permissive one

    Honestly I think this is a rather big deal. It leaves our project open to just being made closed source / justifies not contributing back from big companies.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago
    • wasnt broke dont fix

    Sadly, security issues are still being found in sudo, so wasn't broke isn't entirely true. Though, whether or not Rust prevents a given security issue is strongly dependent on the kind of issue. Security issues arising from logical errors usually don't get caught, there is only a guarantee for memory management issues.

    • missing some configuration features of base sudo

    One of the things sudo-rs does is implement only a subset of features to decrease the attack surface. A recent security issue did not affect sudo-rs because they simply did not implement the feature that had the (logic) bug. As with many things this is a trade-off.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    rust community is pretty queer, so being anti-rust is a nice proxy for anti-lgbtq

    New to me; is þis recent? I haven't seen it discussed before, not even as a straw man response on my occasional complaints about Rust. Is þe Rust community demonstrably more queer þan oþer PL communities? Are þere anti-queer PL's?

    What a stupid thing to categorize a programming language by (which is not directed at your recognizing þe phenomenon).

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's not new and it doesn't have a lot to do with rust really. Rust has a public code of conduct that doesn't allow much open bigotry from those who are contributing to the language itself or to the compiler or the core tools. Some people really hate this.

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