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Here's some data I found interesting: >Speaking at the BlueHat security conference in Israel last week, Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that over

Here's some data I found interesting: >Speaking at the BlueHat security conference in Israel last week, Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that over the last 12 years, around 70 percent of all Microsoft patches were fixes for memory safety bugs. 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... Of course, Rust isn't the only language that tries to address memory safety, but it is one of the few that does so while retaining the performance of C.

pjmlp 6y ago
Microsoft's current security advisory is to use C#/F# (including their newly introduced low level capabilities up to .NET 5), Rust and then C++ alongside Core Guidelines. However the same Microsoft has backtracked in their rejection of C, adding support for C11 and C17, replaced the C++ userspace drivers framework with a C one, and despite all security sales pitch for Azure IoT, they ship Sphere OS and RTOS with a C only SDK.