But sudo-rs seems to have a bit of a different usecase since it is intended as a drop in replacement for sudo, hence it must be able to handle the sudoers file aso.

Other than being yet another "standard tool X clone written in Rust" project, does it actually provide any tangible value?

[–] deur@feddit.nl -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it have to?

[–] lysdexic@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lambda@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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.