Ubuntu moving to Rust: Carefully but Purposefully Oxidising Ubuntu

It&#x27;s good they know they need to be cautious about it (a year seems a bit optimistic though), but &quot;haven’t had many issues&quot; kinda sounds concerning if it means I cannot boot (or given sudo-rs lacks sudoedit currently, locking me out the system)...<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.ubuntu.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;carefully-but-purposefully-oxidising-ubuntu&#x2F;56995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;discourse.ubuntu.com&#x2F;t&#x2F;carefully-but-purposefully-ox...</a> seems to have more discussions asking why they&#x27;re not using existing infrastructure to manage the transition.

Pardon my ignorance and I understand the appeal of keeping everything within one cohesive language, but are some of the these core utilities really being made &quot;safer&quot; by rewriting them in rust?<p>I mean, is &#x27;cp&#x27; really unsafe in C and will be magically safe in Rust?<p>Or is this partly to appeal to the comfort of having one uniform language?<p>Admittedly in the long term regardless these rewrites may well pay off quite well.