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by NiLSPACE 3300 days ago
Some of these bugs could've been prevented with Rust: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-0...
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wpietri 3300 days ago
Do you have any evidence that's why users are switching away?

My general belief is that general-audience users don't care at all about bugs like those. Which is why we have so very many of them, and have for decades.

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pygy_ 3300 days ago
Rust's fearless concurrency[0] allows devs to write and refactor performant parallel code without the risk of introducing bugs, enabling them to ship upgrades faster.

It's the same benefit you get from strong, static types in a large project vs one with dynamic/weak types, but for another category of bugs. In large projects, it makes a difference.

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0. Hopefully you'll forget the meme ;-)

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MisterBastahrd 3300 days ago
I switched away from Firefox because at the time it was bloated, buggy, and slow. I haven't switched back because I am more familiar with Google's developer tools.
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NiLSPACE 3300 days ago
I don't, but a marketing campaign saying "using modern safe techniques" might get a little traction.
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braveo 3299 days ago
That isn't what I asked, I asked if this class of problem is truly causing a lot of harm.

Software stabilizes over time, you find problems and then you fix them. How often are these class of bugs causing catastrophic issues?

That's really the important question.

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