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Underwhelming report. Boils down to "rewrite it in <memory safe language>; but be careful, even those allow unsafe regions". Also surprising: no mention of Ada/
by yazzku 4y ago
Underwhelming report. Boils down to "rewrite it in <memory safe language>; but be careful, even those allow unsafe regions". Also surprising: no mention of Ada/Spark, the language people use to guide rockets and pacemakers? Seems pretty damn safe to me, and it handles more than memory safety, such as integer arithmetic.
- halffaday 4y agoTo your point, you should probably not do anything the NSA tells you to do. A spy agency’s endorsement of Rust is not to its credit.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoBorders on: Histler was vegan, don't be vegan.
- tialaramex 4y agoIf I tell you to jump off a bridge so you do that, you're unwise because you obeyed my instructions without thinking. If I tell you not to jump off a bridge so you do it, you're still unwise because now you're just defying my instructions without thinking. Maybe the C++ bridge isn't on fire, but if you think you can smell smoke you wouldn't be alone.