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On 2026-05-03, bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> wrote:

On 5/3/2026 2:45 AM, Lawrence D?Oliveiro wrote:

On Sun, 3 May 2026 11:25:00 +1000, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

With $1 Cyberattacks on the Rise, Durable Defenses Pay Off Writing
memory-safe code beats patching your way to safety

Rust seems to be the language du jour for tackling this problem.

Google reported a significant decrease in memory-related bugs after
adopting Rust into the Android code base in a major way. Though,
oddly, not a decrease in bugs overall ...

There was memory safe C 40 years ago. No one was interested.

That may or may not be true, but the US government was interested enough
in that world during the above timeframe that it commissioned a true improvement in that area around >45 years ago (which ended up as Ada 83)
and was then further improved in Ada 95.

Perhaps nobody was really interested in this "memory safe C" because
it didn't improve things in the way that Ada did which was also created
in this same timeframe ?

Simon.

PS: Note that I renamed this thread "Safer" programming languages, not
"Safe". There is no such thing as a "Safe" programming language.
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