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by nonameiguess 1090 days ago
libc is used by the entire system. It's not a vendored dependency of just sudo. At best, you'd amortize it over everything that uses it to get a reasonable comparison.
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Are we not on the trail to doing the same with rust, at least in theory? You don't think someone somewhere has the idea to make an all-rust system eventually? Even without that evetual ultimate expression, if you have even a few rust components in your system and not just sudo alone, then the same point stands. You don't count rust itself any more than you count gcc.
> You don't think someone somewhere has the idea to make an all-rust system eventually?

In progress. Looks good so far. I haven't tried it, though.

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