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by valenterry 1073 days ago
Then ask yourself: how much have you done to prevent people choosing the wrong programming language? Because the PL has such a major influence, it's by far the most low hanging fruit to tackle those many of those issues.
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Personally? I've done quite a bit here although there's always more. I worked at Google to fund Rust development internally and externally, helped sponsor the work that eventually led to getting Rust adopted in the Linux kernel, and now run a company that's building a new Linux distribution that prioritizes shipping code written in memory safe languages.

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/02/mitigating-memory-sa...

https://www.chainguard.dev/unchained/building-the-first-memo...

Oh awesome! Then I take off my hat. :-)