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.
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.
Hot take. But I won’t use rust until they fix the security issue of crates