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Prossimo project aims to replace memory unsafe C/C++ code with Rust (www.memorysafety.org)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The projects they want to make safer includes Linux, curl, sudo, among others.

Just found it and I think this will be interesting for this community.

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[–] NeryK 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A few too many superlatives in their pitches for my taste. Not a bad idea overall, though the bias in favor of Rust is strong. Did it really become the go-to (heh) memory safe programming language for performance ?