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Re:Replacements for existing software written in Rust by pdimitar on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:09AM (#27313957)
> Caveat: Saying “Just write it in rust” won’t change the fact that writing secure software is hard.

Absolutely. It's just that statistically the memory safety bugs have been the dominant percent of all the bugs, so rewriting core tools in a memory-safe language does make sense.

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Re:Replacements for existing software written in Rust by afarrell on Friday May 28, 2021 @09:55AM (#27315352)
Indeed.

Time & attention are limited resources. By eliminating the dominant class of bugs you have more time and attention for more subtle bugs.

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Re:Replacements for existing software written in Rust by pdimitar on Friday May 28, 2021 @11:14AM (#27316356)
> Time & attention are limited resources. By eliminating the dominant class of bugs you have more time and attention for more subtle bugs.

Beautifully articulated.

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