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Yes, I had a similar thought. The top two comment chains right now are (to paraphrase) "See, modern C++ isn't free of memory issues" and "Maybe we should rewri
by davb 10y ago
Yes, I had a similar thought.
The top two comment chains right now are (to paraphrase) "See, modern C++ isn't free of memory issues" and "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare".
- burntsushi 10y ago> "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare" That already happened, almost three years ago. It's an interesting comparison point. The OP contains memory corruption bugs in C++'s standard regex library. If Rust claims to prevent these kinds of bugs, does it actually hold up to scrutiny? One way of testing that is throwing a fuzzer against a regex library written in Rust.
- blub 10y agoBoost is not the "C++ standard regex library", it's one of the best known C++ libraries.