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Rust Lang ENDORSED By The US Government!?! #Linux #YouTube https://youtu.be/ujN7d-1REoU

Rust Lang ENDORSED By The US Government!?!

THIS IS NOT A DRILL, the US government is endorsing Rust Lang. Ok that's kind of joke but they did recently release a press release and report about the impo...
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in reply to Brodie Robertson

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I actually agree that memory safe languages should be used more often. But my worry is that someone takes that general principal as an absolute.

As in rejecting projects made by C because the US government said so. Policy makers who don't understand what is going on could draft stupid legislation, businesses (or other such entities) with non programmer leads could make stupid policy.

It'd be great if I'm just paranoid thpugh

in reply to Brodie Robertson

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Way overdue, we should really have been doing this 20 years ago. I think a big missing piece in this sage is that things like C created a kind of path dependency where we couldn't have nice things like operating systems with GCs (Microsoft Research's Singularity, for example) because they had to be compatible with legacy C code. A call for a big research push back then to overcome that C legacy would have been welcome. At least now we have Rust.

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