The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it’s also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.

  • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    3·
    5 hours ago

    The discourse centered around memory safety is itself lacks the knowledge to realize that the overall value proposition of Rust is much bigger than this single aspect, although the breadth of sub-aspects that cover memory safety offered by Rust is itself also under-grasped.

    What is the value proposition of Rust? I thought it was entirely about memory safety. But I’m not a programmer.

    • ISO@lemmy.zip
      61·
      4 hours ago

      Rust has features that are not directly related to memory safety, but introduce paradigmatic and ergonomic improvements that help writing correct logic more often. Features like sum types (powerful enums) and type classes (traits, how generics are implemented) quickly come to mind. Hygienic macros and procedural macros are also very powerful features.

      Sometimes the two aspects (language feature and memory safety) come together. For example, the Send and Sync traits is the part of the type system that contributes to implementing thread safety.

      So it’s not all just about (im)mutability, lifetimes, and the borrow checker, the directly relevant safety features.

      Also, the tooling and the ecosystem are factors the value of which can not be understated.