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[–] sweaty@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes security issues will remain a problem no matter what language was used. You are talking about the possibility of a logic flaw being there, whereas rust 'just' prevents memory corruption.

Which is the more common security issue? Memory corruption by a mile. That's why many are excited by the rust rewrite

So you're right it isn't literally everything, but I'm not sure what would be. What would make you not fed up about it?

[–] SuperFola@programming.dev 0 points 8 months ago

I think I'm more fed up with people making those quotes "rust will change everything" when, in fact, it will rule out many if not most memory corruption as you said. Reading your comment, I see now it's the mentality "everything need to be in rust" that bothers me the most, which in fact means "rust can bring memory safety" and not "rust will replace everything". Alas I'm seeing it used times and times again as the latter instead of the former.