Microsoft is turning Rust into a first-class language for developing secure Windows drivers
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Just in time for Windows to choke off and die.
A lot of Windows bugs are memory corruption bugs. And those are often severe. Using Rust does actually prevent memory corruption. The rest of Windows is still probably insecure, but any security improvement is good.
Also, the SSD bugs may have been caused by prerelease SSD firmware. With all this back and forth who knows though.
Not sure what you "security" link has to do with anything, but Windows has had a pretty great security record for the past decade at least. Arguably better than Linux and at least on par. They do things like static analysis of drivers which as far as I know Linux doesn't require.
There are still a lot of vulnerabilities, but don't try to disprove this with a link to some CVE because there are also a ton of Linux vulnerabilities.
Also Microsoft doesn't take the dubious view that security bugs are "just bugs" and don't deserve special consideration.
Good for them, I refuse to write those tho
Went to this rust conf last week and the Keynote speaker did a great job!
Adding rust FFI bindings to a part of a closed-source system doesn't magically make anything "secure".
And ads shouldn't be allowed here, unless real fully functional code (not just bindings) is made available. Such ads should go to ![email protected] or wherever.