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There was an article from Microsoft on why they're adopting Rust that was posted a little bit ago. The gist of it is that even with a skilled staff, 70% of thei
by inamberclad 7y ago
There was an article from Microsoft on why they're adopting Rust that was posted a little bit ago. The gist of it is that even with a skilled staff, 70% of their CVEs were due to memory errors.
- geofft 7y agoRight - the whole point of having computers / machines is to reliably and efficiently do things that humans are bad at doing at scale. I honestly don't understand people who are excited about programming and also excited about doing things by hand that computers can do better and faster. Like, what is the appeal of programming to them?
- Polyisoprene 7y agoEnjoying debugging their code? :)
- xkLA 7y agoThe article was not from Microsoft but from some rag like ZDNet (I think it was also ZDNet, in which case they're currently submarine-ing Rust). 70% of CVEs are C/C++, because those bugs need to be fixed and important things run on C/C++. It is an entirely useless metric.
- steveklabnik 7y agoZDNet reported on a presentation given at a security conference by Microsoft. > 70% of CVEs are C/C++, because those bugs need to be fixed and important things run on C/C++. You mis-understood the statistic; the statistic was not "70% of CVEs come from C and C++", the statistic was "70% of bugs come from memory safety issues." They did not classify by language.