Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming

Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by wheelerof4te on Friday June 03, 2022 @01:36PM (#31611322)

"It is ironic to build super safe software, then deploying them on kubernetes, written in a GC'd language prone to nil dereference errors."

This is something that escapes a lot of people nowadays.

Everyone uses a browser and they are inherently unsafe.

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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by pjmlp on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:30PM (#31611966)

I feel it is a bit ironic that Apple and Google rather introduce mitigations for C++ in their browser engines than introduce Rust into the codebase.

Meaning that Firefox's gains with Rust will eventually be lost given its market adoption is slowing reaching zero.

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Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming by ssokolow on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @10:44PM (#31662609)

Google is investigating Rust as part of a multi-pronged strategy and, while it has the "this is not an official Google project" boilerplate, the `autocxx` crate (a header-parser/code-generator addon for the `cxx` interop crate) is by Google employees.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRZr-HJcYmf2Y76D...

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

https://github.com/google/autocxx

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