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by UltraViolence 1331 days ago
It's not ridiculous, it's a proven fact! Rust obviously won't stop logical errors, but it will put an end to the almost unending cue of memory and thread related bugs.

Mind you that Firefox, for example, has been around for 17 years. Every month I get security updates fixing multiple memory holes in the code each of which could potentially allow anyone to take over my machine. Seventeen years!! They must have fixed hundreds if not thousands of such bugs by now, and every month more are repaired by updates.

We'd have none of those had it been written in Rust.

Also mind the time saved by developers not having to hunt for such (hard to track down) bugs!
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cesarb 1331 days ago
> We'd have none of those had it been written in Rust.

Except for memory issues in JIT-generated code from Javascript? Not all browser vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues in the code generated by the Javascript JIT, but several of them are (particularly "type confusion" vulnerabilities). Rust might help avoid vulnerabilities in the code generator, but not in the generated code.

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