Hacker News: bluedragon1221https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bluedragon1221Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 13 May 2026 15:23:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by bluedragon1221 in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"]]>That is a very pretentious opinion. Dnsmasq is a ubiquitous project, ~14 years old, and has maintainers that are very experienced in c and in the codebase. Telling them to rewrite in a language they are (maybe) unfamiliar with, even with the help of AI, will make these maintainers' experience worthless.

People seem to think that rewriting in rust just magically fixes all issues, but that's not how it works (See recent uutils CVEs). Rewrites tend to have more bugs because the code is new and hasn't been reviewed as much.

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