Google's take on memory safety

[Paulo Pinto]

On Friday, 8 March 2024 at 17:14:00 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
> On Friday, 8 March 2024 at 10:43:39 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> 
>> Just wait until delivering software written in C or C++ 
>> requires a biohazard symbol "handle with care" kind of 
>> regulation
>
> Why would this happen? Is there a reason to expect it to 
> happen? How do you square this with mircosoft being a friend of 
> the cia, and mircosoft also has a gaint pile of c and c++ its 
> up for debate if they are capable of rewriting

Yes, that is the expected outcome of US and EU cybersecurity 
bills that make companies liable for security exploits.


Rust is now the official systems programming language for Azure 
infrastructure teams, alongside managed languages. Use of C and 
C++ is constrained to existing code bases.

Rust is also shipping on Windows kernel  already.