alt Hacker NewsOf all the projects which may benefit from a rewrite or re-imagining in a memory-safe language, I'm really puzzled why it's heavily-tested, near-universally-deployed software such as sudo (use oBSD doas instead?), the coreutils, and sqlite.
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Havoc • yesterday at 10:19 PM
I don't think there is a big picture plan. It requires that someone care both about rust and the thing
...which is a pretty arbitrary combination
Doas supports a subset of sudo functionality by design. Your comment is exactly what I said when I first heard about the rust linux utils thing. The best they can do is have new bugs.