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The First Stable Release of a Memory Safe sudo Implementation
(www.memorysafety.org)
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this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2023
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Other than being yet another "standard tool X clone written in Rust" project, does it actually provide any tangible value?
Does it have to?
If you're a developer looking for a pastime working on a personal project, no. You're free to waste your time and effort doing anything that pleases you.
Everyone else in the world only bothers with something if it provides any value at all. If a project such as this one fails to provide any value them no one will have any reason to waste their time with it, no matter how many times you rewrite it in Rust.
I'm with you. Potential memory safety is the benefit that people should care about. But, the original sudo has been around for so long that I imagine the memory safety is already pretty well hashed out. I believe that there are speed benefits to some of the random applications re-written in rust. But, I don't see how something like sudo would have any benefit.