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by carapace 1275 days ago
I call this the "Lie back and think of England" stance.

You're not wrong, until the end, it should be: "you have to distrust the Rust org, all of it."

And not just Rust, Python and JS and all the others. There are languages and systems that take trust and security seriously, but these are not they.

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Pray tell us, which languages do take trust and security seriously, according to you?
(Is it that you don't know of any yourself? Or that you think I can't provide examples? In what world is what I said even slightly controversial? Type checking is just catching on now, decades after it was invented and implemented. C'mon.)

Anyway, off the top of my head, Ada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

and E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS

Qubes and SEL4 are Operating systems. (OK Labs was acquired by General Dynamics. That seems like a pretty good recommendation to me.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass...