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Re:Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory saf... by ccnafr on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:10PM (#19138864)
I knew this comment was coming :)))
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Re:Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory saf... by grayrest on Monday February 11, 2019 @07:16PM (#19139829)
It IS why Mozilla sponsored the language. The early "why Rust" presentations had a stat that (paraphrasing) 50% of Mozilla security bugs would have been prevented by the borrow checker.
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Re:Microsoft: 70 percent of all security bugs are memory saf... by mrinterweb on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:39PM (#19139158)
Yeah. I looked at the comments looking specifically for this comment. I was not disappointing.
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