SUSE Developer Working To Reimplement SSH Using The Zig Programming Language (www.phoronix.com)

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SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software.

In development now and planned for further work during SUSE's upcoming Hack Week the first week of December is this SSH implementation being worked on in the Zig language.

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 12 points 4 weeks ago

This reads liks satire of Ubuntu reimplementing sudo in Rust.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

SHNORLE developer working to reimplemented SHH in the Zorp programming language

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 4 weeks ago

Rewrite in zig? But why? What advantages would it have over the current SSH implementation?

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