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		mediocrejoker on March 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust is not a good C replacement I know the kernel is not the C language, but I think the efforts being undertaken to harden the kernel (use of syzkaller, etc) provide a good roadmap for C programs in general. https://lwn.net/Articles/763641/

adrianN on March 25, 2019 [–]

The Chrome team is working really hard to secure their program. They're also really good engineers. Yet there are still lots of memory corruption bugs in Chrome. That makes me believe that it's impossible to write safe C++ once your code is sufficiently complicated. I don't think C fares any better on that front.

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