Re:Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
by Deukhoofd on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:52AM
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How much of that is due to the sheer volume of business critical software written in C/C++?
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Re:Fish (shell) porting to Rust from C++
by fnordpiglet on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @01:03PM
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Surely you jest. Do you think most web services are written in C? Most enterprise software has been written in Java for a very long time. When you see exploits in other languages it’s often exploits due to the fact they were written in C/C++. Buffer overruns are no an artifact of the prevalence of C/C++, but that of the stack that you operate the C/C++ surface area is the weakest.