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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by saagarjha on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:51PM (#27556777)
> Invalidating 6 months of work.

What kind of system was this where a bug would literally invalidate all results from the moment it was introduced?

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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by grumblenum on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:55PM (#27557610)
It’s just another of many testimonials of projects that will not be named at companies that will not be disclosed with implausible circumstances or unlikely details here to convince you that you had better switch your tech stack to this brand new thing before you too become a cautionary tale.
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Re:Prossimo – Memory safety for the Internet's most critical... by bombela on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:11AM (#27648516)
Google. Backup of filers. Conversion from NetApp filer dumps to tarball. I did open source a prototype of the tool. I don't know if it has the bug. The final version was to Google standard of C++ and maybe some cleaner abstractions. https://github.com/bombela/dump2tar
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