Re:Exploring System76's New Rust Based Desktop Environment
by southerntofu on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:55AM
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> Rust's unsafe wouldn't have done anything to protect against an hypotetical log4r.
You are correct. No programming language will protect you from writing flawed application logic.
> pity that they are using a C GUI library. (...) Gtk version update, even minor ones might break the assumptions
I don't know about that. GTK is more "battletested" than most frameworks, and has a lot of contributors to fix bugs. Also, and that's a very important point, GTK cares for accessibility! Using any other framework would have meant excluding a lot of people from the GUI.
As for assumptions, i certainly hope GTK devs don't push breaking changes to the ABI on minor updates. But i guess that's yet another assumption that can be broken.
As for the memory fuckups you are right, pity that they are using a C GUI library.
Even if the binding has been deemed safe upon validation, if only remains a valid certification until the next Gtk version update, even minor ones might break the assumptions validated on the unsafe code block.