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Rust is designed to integrate into legacy codebases so security critical code can be rewritten in small steps. See the URL parser I Firefox. Moreover, the init
by galgalesh 6y ago
Rust is designed to integrate into legacy codebases so security critical code can be rewritten in small steps. See the URL parser I Firefox. Moreover, the initiative this post is talking about uses rust to rewrite small parts of a C codebase.
Honestly, I'm getting more and more disappointed by the quality of discussion here on HN.
- tdimitrov 6y agoThanks for the kind words :) There is no such thing as security critical code. If it is out there - it can be expoloited. There are a lot of stories with minor exploit chaining leading to huge compromise.