Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git

Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git by hmartins on Thursday August 13, 2020 @07:05AM (#24142025)

CCL:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):

  lisp:        336793 (84.60%)
  asm:          30410 (7.64%)
  ansic:        29862 (7.50%)
  sh:             718 (0.18%)
  objc:           299 (0.08%)
  java:             7 (0.00%)

> Lisp is a memory-safe language with automatic memory management, which removes all of the aforementioned classes of attacks that are available in C.

Yeah, right.

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Re:Gitoxide: Pure Rust Implementation of Git by phoe-krk on Thursday August 13, 2020 @08:17AM (#24142559)

> Yeah, right.

In Lisp, the programmer never frees memory themselves, so use-after-free and double-free are not triggerable by the user. Bound checks for all array types are in effect, so overflows are impossible. Strong typing and a lack of casting prevent type confusion.

Do you have any arguments other than the unsubstantial "yeah, right"?

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