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Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52% (thehackernews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by snaggen to c/rust

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[+] [email protected] -10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Having a language that guards against that is just one more level of safety, and that’s a good thing.

Yes it is.
But my point simply is, "caring" about stuff needs to be normalised, instead of over-anti-pedantism and answering concerns with stuff like, "chill dude!".
We know very well that not all bugs are memory related.

[–] onlinepersona 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Microsoft: 70% of bugs are memory safety bugs
Google Chrome devs: Chrome: 70% of all security bugs are memory safety issues

Even this article of the thread states it dropped from 76% to 24% through the introduction of Rust.

If you seriously think:

most of those memory bugs were because "engineers didn't care" or "didn't double check their code"
the bugs were mostly introduced by newbies
those products were coded by incompetent people

I'd like to see the water you walk on.

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