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by pjmlp 1892 days ago
Agreed, I keep reaching for C++, because of the dependency many ecosystems have.

Chromium is a good example actually, I bet they would rather follow the "Custom C++ libraries" and "Hardware mitigations" than the Firefox approach.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

Apple did something similar recently, their iBoot firmware uses a custom safe C dialect.

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Thanks, I'd not seen that page before.

> The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems.

I'll point to this next time this topic crops up.