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Underwhelming report. Boils down to "rewrite it in <memory safe language>; but be careful, even those allow unsafe regions". Also surprising: no mention of Ada/Spark, the language people use to guide rockets and pacemakers? Seems pretty damn safe to me, and it handles more than memory safety, such as integer arithmetic.


To your point, you should probably not do anything the NSA tells you to do. A spy agency’s endorsement of Rust is not to its credit.


If I tell you to jump off a bridge so you do that, you're unwise because you obeyed my instructions without thinking.

If I tell you not to jump off a bridge so you do it, you're still unwise because now you're just defying my instructions without thinking.

Maybe the C++ bridge isn't on fire, but if you think you can smell smoke you wouldn't be alone.


Borders on: Histler was vegan, don't be vegan.




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