robinm

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[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 1 points 1 week ago

@5C5C5C I found back the study I was talking about

https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/google_rust_safe_code_android/

> The good news for organizations with a lot of unsafe legacy code is that rewriting old code in new languages probably isn't necessary.

> That's not to say old bugs miraculously become unexploitable. Rather, the overall density of vulnerabilities diminishes – a statistical win but not a guarantee of safety.

[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@onlinepersona @snaggen Indirectly it can. Recent studies showed that old code is very unlikely to have security issue. This means that if all new code can be in Rust, while keeping the old code in C++ will be much more secure that rewrite all C++ (because by definition rewrite have more bugs since its new code). So interoperability is both safer and cheaper.

[–] robinm@fosstodon.org 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

@h3ndrik @Blamemeta I wonder if having fakebut interesting comments would help (ie. written by alt-account of the author) . I noticed that I have significantly higher chances to participate in the conversation if there are already 5-6 comments than 0-2, especially if they open the dialog.