The 'Most Trusted Code on Earth' Is Being Rewritten in Rust — uutils and sudo-rs Go Mainstream

Fireship (corroborated by Phoronix, OSnews)·medium signal

Fireship covers the migration of foundational Unix system code to Rust: Ubuntu 26.04 ships uutils (Rust reimplementations of ls/cp/mv/cat and dozens more, ~88% GNU-coreutils compatible with a GNU fallback) as the default, while AWS funds a memory-safe Rust rewrite of sudo/su. The counterpoint already circulating — a vulnerability found in the Rust-based sudo — shows memory safety isn't a silver bullet. Verified via Phoronix and OSnews.