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This is one of the reasons that people are excited about Rust; it promises to eliminate a whole class of security bugs that are often found in C applications an
by perlgeek 10y ago
This is one of the reasons that people are excited about Rust; it promises to eliminate a whole class of security bugs that are often found in C applications and libraries. Without having to resort to managed code.
- petters 10y agoCompletely agree. The first issue in the report is about reading lines from a file. Those kinds of bugs can and should be eliminated for good.
- pjmlp 10y ago> Without having to resort to managed code. Which was already partially possible in the last decades by the lines of Algol family of languages starting on the Mesa/Cedar and Ada branches. What is more exciting about Rust is that a new generation of coders is rediscovering the ways of system programming before C took over the IT industry. Also how their efforts to adopt Cyclone regions are influencing Swift, C++, D, ParaSail and Pony designs.
- cesarb 10y ago> Without having to resort to managed code. Even better: gradually replacing parts of the current C code with Rust code is possible, while keeping the same API and ABI. IIRC, someone is already trying it with librsvg.
- steveklabnik 10y agohttps://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2016-10.html#25 https://people.gnome.org/~federico/news-2016-10.html#25