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by coldtea 3645 days ago
This "just rewrite in Rust to have it be secure" is the new "just rewrite everything in assembly to have it be fast" that is popular with newbie programmers, CS freshmen etc, when they first learn about the various languages, but don't yet appreciate or understand the broader ecosystem implications...
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I agree that lets-ASM has been wrong in most cases. However misguided in many cases it may be, in this context it's serving a more pressing problem than the lets-ASM mentality because there is a real security problem with most code that can be solved with different language+tooling and is only insecure because of historical popularity reasons like the rise of C in the 1980s.