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I'm not sure why they'd benefit from that, but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust. For once I'm taking a not-conspiratorial li
by yodelshady 6y ago
I'm not sure why they'd benefit from that, but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.
For once I'm taking a not-conspiratorial line and think it's just all concerned parties wanting fewer bugs in software. But it does lead to an interesting line of thought for Mozilla...
- Barrin92 6y ago>but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust. Microsoft put a report out a while ago that memory safety issues account for over 70% of security bugs in microsoft products[1] which they attribute to unsafe languages in the codebase so it seems natural that they're interested in Rust. [1]https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-security-bugs-are-memory-safety-issues/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-70-percent-of-all-se...