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Here's a recent USENIX talk on the topic of memory unsafety and the choice of programming languages: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/g

by dbrgn 6y ago

Here's a recent USENIX talk on the topic of memory unsafety and the choice of programming languages: https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/gaynor https://www.usenix.org/conference/enigma2021/presentation/ga... Slides can be downloaded. I hope the talk recording will be available as well.

otabdeveloper4 6y ago
> memory unsafety Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one. As far as payment processors go, I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs.
- adwn 6y ago
  > Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one. Wrong. Memory unsafety, in its various forms, is the primary source of exploits in software written in C. > I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs Another thing which is hard to do in C, and so much easier in some more modern programming languages (particularly in Rust).