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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by nojito on Thursday February 18, 2021 @07:59AM (#26179285)
Most of those project authors refuse to rewrite or adopt memory safe languages in their projects.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by lullibrulli3 on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:00AM (#26179291)
No reason no exclude them in the first place.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by nojito on Thursday February 18, 2021 @09:11AM (#26179965)
Sure, but the internet shouldn't be too upset when a fork happens with a version that has feature parity and is memory safe.
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by mempko on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:00AM (#26179298)
Any why shouldn't they?
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Re:Mitigating Memory Safety Issues in Open Source Software by encom on Thursday February 18, 2021 @08:09AM (#26179383)
I don't know, reinventing the wheel with the latest buzzword compliant language sounds like a fun time. Think of all the exciting new bugs you get to fix!
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