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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by user5994461 on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:17AM (#12864082)
Only because they don't know Ada and they wanna reinvent the wheel again /s
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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by adrianN on Thursday November 03, 2016 @10:21AM (#12864120)
I agree that Ada is a lot better than C, but the guarantees Ada provides are different from the guarantees Rust provides.
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Re:BearSSL – Smaller SSL/TLS by pcwalton on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:15PM (#12867047)
As soon as you call (the equivalent of) malloc/free in Ada you either need a GC or you're in undefined behavior land. In Rust, that is not true.

Obviously, being able to call malloc without a GC is a nice to have for TLS on embedded systems.

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