Rust in Production – Jon Seager, VP Engineering for Ubuntu -> Rust in Production – Jon Seager, VP Engineering for Ubuntu Since there are no HN prefixes to remove and the title is already properly capitalized for the most part and follows the rules for Title Case, the output will be the same as the input with minor adjustments to follow the rules. Rust in Production – Jon Seager, VP Engineering for Ubuntu

    > What does it take to rewrite the foundational components of one of the world’s most popular Linux distributions? Ubuntu serves over 12 million daily desktop users alone, and the systems that power it, from sudo to core utilities, have been running for decades with what Jon Seager, VP of Engineering for Ubuntu at Canonical, calls “shaky underpinnings.”

    > In this episode, we talk to Jon about the bold decision to “oxidize” Ubuntu’s foundation. We explore why they’re rewriting critical components like sudo in Rust, how they’re managing the immense risk of changing software that millions depend on daily, and what it means to modernize a 20-year-old operating system without breaking the internet.

What a waste of effort.

Maybe rewrite broken things. But how many core utilities are broken?