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		imtringued on Sept 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe Rust isn’t a good tool for massively concurr... The safety argument is actually the reason why you can use Rust in those cases to begin with. If it was C or C++ you simply couldn't use it for things like webservers due to the safety problems inherent to these languages. So Rust creeps into the part of the market that used to be exclusive to GC languages.

maccard on Sept 9, 2023 [–]

What do you think nginx and Apache are written in?

ttfkam on Sept 9, 2023 | [–]

How few severe vulnerabilities and other major defects (memory corruption or crashes) do you think Nginx and Apache have had over the years?

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