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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

But, maybe, just maybe, replacing one of the most important coreutils with an immature Rust product isn't a good idea

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

    Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it's memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn't seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I've never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago

    Firstly, Rust doesn't need to "prove its worth." It's been in use in prod in other contexts for years.

    Secondly, sudo is still actively getting a decent number of commits every month and has been riddled with bugs. For instance, just a few months ago there was a critical privilege escalation vuln. This rewrite is stripping out functionality that is deemed unnecessary.

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