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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by pjmlp on Monday May 25, 2020 @02:08AM (#23298415)
Yes for multi-threaded code, although not quite for multi-processes code, which is what one should be writing when the goal is security.

Then you are back into the same synchronization issues as in every other language.

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by vardump on Monday May 25, 2020 @05:28AM (#23299466)
Yeah, it solves only the 99.9% case.
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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by pjmlp on Monday May 25, 2020 @08:24AM (#23300263)
So Firefox will return to be a single executable after Rust migration is fully done? After all that is not needed it seems.
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