Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security
by kbenson on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:55AM
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> there is no way a developer can write a code in Rust that causes segfaults ( atleast language promises that ).
Well, as long as you avoid unsafe blocks (which turn off a few safety features in a specific scope so you can do complex or performance critical things in that scope) you're supposed to be safe, but to my knowledge it's not formally proven. In practice it seems to be working quite well though.
Well, as long as you avoid unsafe blocks (which turn off a few safety features in a specific scope so you can do complex or performance critical things in that scope) you're supposed to be safe, but to my knowledge it's not formally proven. In practice it seems to be working quite well though.