3 ms·
I don’t think Linux or bsd will ever be rewritten in rust nor should they. I do think eventually there will be an os written in rust that surpasses them in popu
by empath75 7y ago
I don’t think Linux or bsd will ever be rewritten in rust nor should they. I do think eventually there will be an os written in rust that surpasses them in popularity, but probably on the time frame of decades.
- qznc 7y agoThere are not many CVEs for coreutils anyways: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?vendor_id=72 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?v... To improve security, Rust should probably aim to replace libjpeg and other stuff which deals with malicious data a lot.
- saagarjha 7y agocoreutils are often run on untrusted data.