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Re:Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust by akira2501 on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @03:30PM (#42381091)
> The U.S. government wants everyone to abandon C/C++

That's the position of two federal agencies, namely, FBI and CISA. They don't describe how this change will reduce CVEs or why the languages they prefer still produce projects with CVEs.

I don't particularly hold the technical or social acumen of FBI or CISA in particularly high regard and I'm not sure why anyone would by default either. Mostly because they say things like "switch to python!" without once accounting for the fact that python is written in C.

It's an absurd point to invoke as a defense of this idea.

Re:Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust by rnmkr on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:23PM (#42395906)
Well Google's Rust report is already out with great results.. so..