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> no one is saying we should deactivate native apps written in unsafe languages No we should definitely not, but we should encourage using something like rust

• iainmerrick 9y ago
  The language is a red herring here. Javascript is a safe language, but it's powerful enough to exploit Spectre and Meltdown. Rust would be the same. It's not badly-written programs we need to worry about in this context, it's well-written malicious programs exploiting badly-designed hardware. We don't need apps written in safe programming languages to fix this problem, we need secure browsers, OSes and hardware. (And yes, those bits should be written in safe languages.)