Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by willtim on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:56PM
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Perhaps that now they are using Rust instead of C++, leaks and memory corruption should be much less of an issue.
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Re:Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
by kibwen on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @04:44PM
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Though the Firefox developers aren't going to skimp on sandboxing (or other exploit mitigation techniques) just because of Rust. Defense-in-depth is the name of the game; Rust just provides a layer of language-level defense that C++ previously didn't offer.