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I came here to ask whether your typical Fortran program would carry the coding security risks that Rust is designed to mitigate; I couldn't think of any. Your c

• codezero 6y ago
  It probably wouldn't have affected my work at all. We were running our code as a monolith - it was the only thing that ran on any given machine, and its output was stored on a large filesystem on NFS. That's not to say there isn't someone out there with this concern :)
  • mumblemumble 6y ago
    https://www.fortran.io/ https://www.fortran.io/ For example. More seriously, I could imagine a security flaw in numpy wreaking all sorts of havok. But it's also somewhat difficult for me to imagine that there are any security vulnerabilities left in BLAS. But then I remember Heartbleed.
    • veddox 6y ago
      I think „coding security risks“ referred to language properties that increase the likelihood of introducing bugs in a general sense, not in terms of cyber security/hacking.
• bsder 6y ago
  Memory errors also affect correctness. Forgetting to initialize that last entry or initializing one too many entries by accident can cause random, very hard to track down, issues. Security? Perhaps if your code is pulling chunks of data from a cloud source?
  • classified 6y ago
    You are right, I forgot to mention correctness.