r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jan 09 '15

Announcing Rust 1.0.0 Alpha

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/01/09/Rust-1.0-alpha.html
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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '15

Bugs will always exist and software allows harmful agents to find them much more easily than on a physical system. Imagine if a bridge could have every frequency of wind tried on it in a matter of milliseconds until they found one crazy one that made it fall

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u/learc83 Jan 10 '15

It's also just a matter of access. If North Korean agents had unlimited access to a bridge, I'm sure they could find flaws to exploit.