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[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago

Yes, but there's a difference between "you can write safe code" and "the compiler will come for your family the next time you make a mistake"

[-] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

rust isn't a magic bullet either, it still doesn't protect against a whole host of problems, like stack overflows, out of memory/bitflips, logic errors, memory leaks, unrecoverable errors/panics etc., and many projects are full of unsafe context rust code anyways.

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago

That cannot be true, i used #![forbid(unsafe_code)]

Jokes aside: yes, Rust (and Go) wont magically resolve SQL Injections, but if we remember that about 70% of bugs are related to memory safety, using Rust (or Go) will make your code at least somewhat safer

[-] Kajika@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago

And C++, just checked the wiki and the 2 example of openssh's heartbleed and sudo, both in C. Not C++. As expected.

[-] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

By that logic scratch would be the safest language out there (or can you tell me the last time a program written/built in scratch had a bug that affected millions of ppl around the world)

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