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Only downside is the MIT license, but they are doing good work. Glad they started the project. It also makes it easier to integrate onto other operating systems thanks to the rust toolchain.
Pedants will be quick to point out that the original sudo is also pushover licensed, but that doesn't change the fact that this is still a downside in the Rust version as well.
What happened in 1997 🤔
We don't talk about 1997. It might hear. 😱