The point I am trying to make is there are few, perhaps no, programmers who can write C code without regularly creating potential security issues, especially ones involving buffer overflows.
Manipulate my point all you want, say I am being too mean, but it remains a fact that a large set of potential vulnerabilities are trivial to create in C and C++ code and very difficult to create in Rust code.
This is not just down to programmer skill, no one can learn "safe" C.
Jeremy Soller 🦀 /
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2023-10-11 14:34:44
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