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by adaszko 2767 days ago
Does this matter anywhere outside of embedded software nowadays?
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Yes: security sensitive applications where being able to inspect or fuzz a binary is strongly dependent on size. Also firmware on servers.
Rust has really strong fuzzing support, incidentally https://github.com/rust-fuzz/cargo-fuzz
So does C and other languages.