Re:Comparing Parallel Rust and C++
by bluGill on Friday November 08, 2019 @08:02AM
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Many reasons.
There is a long tail of exceptions to my statement, hard to find things that escape notice for years.
There are a lot of security issues that are not really memory safety as we are talking about here. (many are memory safety in a way that has nothing to do with getting your allocate/free wrong - using uninitialized memory for example). Some of them are subtle new attacks that were just discovered and now need to be mitigated.
There is a long tail of exceptions to my statement, hard to find things that escape notice for years.
There are a lot of security issues that are not really memory safety as we are talking about here. (many are memory safety in a way that has nothing to do with getting your allocate/free wrong - using uninitialized memory for example). Some of them are subtle new attacks that were just discovered and now need to be mitigated.