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There's no magic wand that can make memory safety unimportant, even doing other important things.
by refulgentis 1y ago
There's no magic wand that can make memory safety unimportant, even doing other important things.
- pron 1y agoI agree! Memory safety is important because it's the cause of some of the top vulnerabilities, which is precisely why it's great that both Rust's level of memory safety (which is not absolute) and Zig's level of memory safety (also not absolute), both eliminate those top weaknesses! But once you've taken care of the top weaknesses, it becomes harder to justify putting more effort into eliminating some weaknesses that could go into reducing more common/dangerous ones. If vulnerabilities are the justification, it definitely makes more sense to reduce, say, #4 on the list than #7.