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teleforce on March 13, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Speed of Rust vs. C

Please check reply by dig1, it does contains some mis-information. It even incorrectly refer to the Heartbleed problem.

nindalf on March 13, 2021 [–]

dig1 is wrong. He uses the age old C defence of "it's not a problem with the language, it's just bad programmers programming badly". Apparently buffer reuse isn't a problem because "sane" libraries don't do it. Well, I'll believe it when we stop seeing security issues in C code bases.

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