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Those are all things that could fix the problem. But let me ask this another way. Imagine that you travel into the future a decade or three and a computer scie
by bvinc 8y ago
Those are all things that could fix the problem. But let me ask this another way. Imagine that you travel into the future a decade or three and a computer scientist tells you "pretty much no one gets buffer overflows anymore because of X".
It seems unlikely to me that the answer is going to be ATS, or "we burned down x86".
- andrewflnr 8y agoOk, sure, if you only focus on buffer overflows. Those are the low-hanging fruit of software security. If in future decades we can say "professional software is pretty much secure because of X", X is absolutely not Rust. And I don't think we'll still be using x86.