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All my experience with opensource projects tells me that it's hard to have a healthy opensource project with a super-obscure programming language. The reason is
by hannob 3y ago
All my experience with opensource projects tells me that it's hard to have a healthy opensource project with a super-obscure programming language. The reason is simple: You won't get contributors. You have a hard time finding people doing anything in it.
I have no idea what the SPARK subset of Ada is. But even if it is superior to Rust in one aspect or the other, the fact that you will have a very hard time finding any developers capable of using it kills it as an option.
- formerly_proven 3y agosudo only seems to have two contributors outside Todd Miller which committed more than a handful of lines: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors It's the kind of infrastructure project that doesn't really attract much interest, I doubt there would even be a single external contributor if it were written in some niche language.
- josefx 3y agoDoes that page only list Github accounts? Sudo is maintained using mercurial, the git repository is just a mirror. Try the official homepage for a significantly longer (and also incomplete) list of contributors https://www.sudo.ws/about/contributors/ https://www.sudo.ws/about/contributors/ .