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[–] simon574@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

"Google said 70% of serious bugs in its Chrome Browser are related to memory safety. These can be reduced by using safer programming languages." Theoretically yes, but I doubt that's possible in the real world. Low-level programming languages are being used for performance reasons and not because people like to use them.

[–] Eavolution@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's the niche I think Rust is trying to fill, it's both low level, and provides the tools to be memory safe whenever you don't need unsafe code.

[–] simon574@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I mean yes, see https://servo.org/ It has to be seen if it's really going to be a usable browser engine, and if it will have less security issues.

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