2026-09-15 23:25 UTC
Yea know that is a fair point. I guess I struggle to see any other reason to support this? Even though I believe rust is nominally more secure it’ll be a decade before any core utils clone will be as hardened as the original just by virtue of the original having decades of bug finding and fixes done already.
I don’t think canonical would go through the effort under normal circumstances but I think they’re just taking the opportunity in front of them to ride the rust hype into a less copyleft ecosystem.
This actually ties into a broader complaint I have that the rust ecosystem is built around MIT due to influence of the corporate backers of the rust foundation. Which is unfortunate because I actually really love rust as a language.
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@TeaWithDani@lemmy.world 2026-09-15 23:30
My bet is, Canonical as a service provider has a paying customer that is willing to pay for access to more secure rust utils. Or they want to save resources fixing CVEs. There’s also the spectre of future security regulations possibly demanding these changes one day too.