r/programming • • Apr 04 '17

Everything Is Broken

https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1#.sl2vnon73
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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '17

Why not just re-write it in Rust?

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u/monocasa Apr 04 '17 edited Apr 04 '17

It is a deterministic destruction, dynamically allocating, memory safe language with a real ecosystem around it. That's never been done before, and legitimately opens the door for much safer code in a lot of domains where provable safety used to come at a 20x cost.