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by steveklabnik 4428 days ago
Of course, if it's good code, then you're good. The issue is getting good code in the first place. ;) That's where static analysis can help: compilers are tireless. Humans are faulty.

Memory management issues cause tons of security issues in C++ applications. In the recent Pwn2Own, all of the security vulnerabilities in Firefox would have not been possible had Firefox been implemented in Rust.