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Memory safety issues don't matter. There are five orders of magnitude more pwned boxes due to misquoted strings then there are due to memory safety issues. Yo
by otabdeveloper4 3y ago
Memory safety issues don't matter.
There are five orders of magnitude more pwned boxes due to misquoted strings then there are due to memory safety issues.
You are searching for a problem that could potentially make Rust useful instead of solving a real existing problem that people actually have.
- DannyBee 3y agoSo I think rust is maybe not the right hammer, but the first part is definitely wrong. I'm not sure where your data comes from, but memory safety issues are roughly 50% of all exploitable security vulnerabilities. They were also about 50% of all crashes of android apps (null pointer exceptions)
- otabdeveloper4 3y agoAndroid apps are written in Java and Java is a memory safe language like Rust. (Null pointer exceptions are a logic error, not a memory error.)