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submitted 9 months ago by whyisthesheep@thelemmy.club to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I see people talking about doas saying it's just like sudo but with less features. I'm just wondering if there is any situation where you should use doas or if it's just personal preference.

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Less lines of code needed means less chances of errors and potential vulnerabilities (if number and quality of eyeballs were the same)

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

Also only really applies if you are comparing programs in the same programming language as some programs have lines that are significantly more expressive than others. Conversely, some languages have constructs that are significantly more bug-prone than others (e.g. for loops with explicit integer indices instead of higher order functions like map or iterators to iterate over a collection).

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Sure, I was just speaking in general.

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