DOVER, DELAWARE, November 12, 2024 – The Rust Foundation, an independent non-profit dedicated to stewarding and advancing the Rust programming language, released a comprehensive problem statement addressing the challenges and opportunities in C++ and Rust interoperability. This publication marks a significant step toward making cross-language development more accessible and approachable…
> 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.
@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.