I think it’s pretty clear the “Rust experiment” has failed. You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to know how this plays out. The writing is on the wall: Rust faces a bleak future.
It’s time developers got serious and rewrote sudo-rs in a serious, tried-and-true systems language, potentially C or C++. Only then can system administrators sleep soundly at night, feeling safe from the type of bugs introducing Rust to a mature ecosystem can cause.
I think it’s pretty clear the “Rust experiment” has failed. You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to know how this plays out. The writing is on the wall: Rust faces a bleak future.
It’s time developers got serious and rewrote sudo-rs in a serious, tried-and-true systems language, potentially C or C++. Only then can system administrators sleep soundly at night, feeling safe from the type of bugs introducing Rust to a mature ecosystem can cause.