Re:Spidermonkey has passed V8 on Octane performance
by MichaelGG on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:48AM
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And note that the most serious security bugs in widespread software[1] are typically exactly these common errors. Eliminating them would have prevented nearly all of the remote execution bugs in history.
1: Widespread meaning OSes and popular platforms, not custom LOB apps where SQL injection exists on the login page.
Rust programs are not 'safe' in the sense that they cannot crash or have security bugs, but they are 'safer' in that the compiler automatically performs a series of safety checks to prevent common errors.