Trifecta Tech Foundation
trifectatech.org · Company blog · on HN since 2024
Trifecta Tech Foundation is a Dutch nonprofit that builds Rust infrastructure software such as sudo-rs and zlib-rs and writes about memory safety.
What HN saysHN links it for its zlib-rs benchmarks claiming Rust beats C, its c2rust bzip2 translation, and sudo-rs, which commenters defend as a legitimate nonprofit effort.
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- 1Zlib-rs is faster than C4 people · 346 points · first shared 2025 · 473 comments on HN
- 2Improving state machine code generation4 people · 13 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 3Zlib-Rs in Firefox4 people · 4 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 4Rust should have stable tail calls3 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 5Support the call for Memory Safety incentives in EU cybersecurity policies2 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 6Current Zlib-Rs Performance2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 7Zlib-rs: a stable API and 30M downloads2 people · 3 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 8Translating bzip2 with c2rust2 people · first shared 2025
- 9Homepage2 people · first shared 2026
- 10Bzip2 crate switches from C to 100% Rust1 people · 336 points · first shared 2025 · 182 comments on HN
- 11Memory-safe sudo to become the default in Ubuntu1 people · 224 points · first shared 2025 · 271 comments on HN
- 12Emulating AVX-512 intrinsics in Miri1 people · 14 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 13Fixing our own problems in the Rust compiler1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 14Announcing Zstandard in Rust1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15Ubuntu to adopt ntpd-rs as the default time synchronization client and server1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
bboozzoo · 2026-02-24
> - Tried to reinvent the wheel with sudo-rs
reinvent how? sudo-rs and a bunch of others are maintained by: https://trifectatech.org/ a non profit registered in Netherlands
hobofan · 2026-02-02
Yes, I'm sure they also founded a whole foundation[0] to do that just for "attention and kudos".
[0]: https://trifectatech.org/
MBCook · 2025-06-18
You’re right, there is a large existing test suite. It’s mentioned in an article linked from this one.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/translating-bzip2-with-c2rust/
I suspect attempting to debug it would be a nightmare though. Given the LLM could hallucinate anything anywhere you’d likely waste a ton of time.
I suspect it would be faster to just try and write a new implementation based on the spec and debug that against the test suite. You’d likely be closer.
In fact, since they used c2rust, they had a perfectly working version from the start. From there they just had to clean up the Rust code and make sure it didn’t break anything. Clearly the best of the three options.
dataking · 2025-06-18
They indeed used c2rust for the initial transpile according to https://trifectatech.org/blog/translating-bzip2-with-c2rust/
om8 · 2025-04-14
Here is an example of Rust implementation being faster than C.
https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/
dochtman · 2025-03-16
zlib-rs is faster than C:
https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-is-faster-than-c/