• Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
      14 days

      And if you think that migration to Rust will magically remove all bugs and vulnerabilities, you haven’t been writing software for very long.

      • Muehe@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14 days

        Nobody said it would? But both of these vulnerabilities were use-after-free, so using Rust would probably have helped here (you know if Rust had been a thing back when they were introduced).

        • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
          14 days

          … and replace them with a whole new class of bugs.

          Source: I’ve been writing software since 1982.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      14 days

      Something else will come along with an entourage of fanboys pushing for it to be the next porting language.

      It’ll be great; until the next one comes along.

      By then the kernel will be so slow that Linux will die.