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Nobody said it would be easy, but it is already happening. https://medium.com/@tinocaer/how-microsoft-is-adopting-rust-e0f8816566ba https://medium.com/@tinocae

• CyberRage 5y ago
  Did you even read what you linked? I wouldn't say "already happening" more like first early steps. Operating systems have a massive attack surface, would take years to convert code from C\C++ to Rust and likely be more vulnerable initially(the old code base went through decades of scrutiny, hundreds of scanners\fuzzers etc)
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• saagarjha 5y ago
  I don't think Apple is shipping anything customer facing that's built on Rust?
  • dagmx 5y ago
    Not in rust, but they did: - Add reference counting to ObjC to get rid of a lot of use after free bugs (still of course possible because it's just a language suggestion and not strictly enforced like Rust or Swift) - push for adding ObjC notations to let the tooling help catch some set of bugs. Still not perfect by any means but helps a little. - created an entirely new memory safe language as Swift.
  • steveklabnik 5y ago
    Apple+ has some stuff in Rust, in my understanding.