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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by arghwhat on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:00PM (#21540453)
This would be anecdotal, and caused massive stir in the community when it was realized.
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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by beatgammit on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:20PM (#21540616)
And a lot of the usages were promptly fixed when people made a stink about it.
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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by jturpin on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:50PM (#21540866)
It was only fixed when a fuzzer showed a lot of vulnerabilities. Up until then the attitude was "stop demonizing unsafe, we know what we're doing."
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Re:Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust by cogman10 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @07:07PM (#21540997)
I don't know about those particular authors. However, the vibe I get from the rust community as a whole is "unsafe is where dragons lay". Most, I'd say, treat it just like inline asm in C++. Sometimes a necessary evil, but not something you should be in the habit of using.
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