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Re:Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks by greyhair on Monday January 04, 2021 @06:30PM (#25639739)
It's not like that is hard to fix, and modern compilers will flag uninitialized variables.

Use your brain and use your tools. C is not really that hard for a large number of problem sets.

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Re:Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks by pjmlp on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @02:07AM (#25642951)
Yet, CVE database is full of well known companies that apparently lack such developers.

If their salaries cannot find them, where are they?

Do we have a candidate to prove their secure reports as being wrong?

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Re:Rust is now overall faster than C in benchmarks by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @06:39AM (#25644488)
> It's not like that is hard to fix

In an embedded context, such bugs may be extremely costly to fix, if it's even possible.

> modern compilers will flag uninitialized variables

Reading uninitialized variables is one of the more easily prevented forms of undefined behaviour. As pjmlp points out, undefined behaviour in C/C++ programs is one of the major sources of security vulnerabilities in today's software.

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