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> The article is interesting and the solution great but saying it is safer because Rust is misleading. Using Rust (without unsafe) precludes memory management

> The article is interesting and the solution great but saying it is safer because Rust is misleading. Using Rust (without unsafe) precludes memory management bugs being turned into exploits. That closes an entire category of attack. Sure, “safety” can be defined along different axes, but Rust handles one entirely. How does that not make it safer than using a memory unsafe language?

allendoerfer 4y ago
> How does that not make it safer than using a memory unsafe language? It was never compared to using a memory unsafe language. It was compared to a wildly used and battle-tested open source software.
- marcinzm 4y ago
  Nginx is written in C which is probably where the comparison is coming from.
- pornel 4y ago
  Cloudflare uses a custom fork of nginx, with custom extensions, Lua FFI, and improved HTTP/2 and caching modules. So it is a comparison to development of in-house C.