Project behind the Rust programming language asserted that any calls to a specific API would be made safe, even with unsafe inputs, but security researchers found ways to circumvent the protections.
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Vows to make safe C++-alike a mainstream language of choice as hundreds of devs wield it
Katyanna Quach Fri 30 Apr 2021 // 06:23 UTC Share
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Video Facebook is joining the Rust Foundation at its highest member level – and vowed to help make Rust a mainstream language of choice for systems programming and beyond.”
Rust was conceived at Mozilla Research in 2010 by Graydon Hoare as a C/C++-like programming language with a focus on safety and speed. We like to say Google invented the programming language Go – and Mozilla created No. One thing about Rust is that it refuses to build software that the programmer may not be aware is potentially or straight-up unsafe. The overall result is that you should end up making more reliable software.