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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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