Comment on A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoTo have something optimized they need to start from scratch with clean code
And honestly, that speaks more to the removal of features on the taskbar than Notepad.
One person could have rewritten Notepad from scratch in C++ in a day and bolted in Markdown in a relatively secure fashion in another 2. I doubt security even hit the requirements list. I’m not against moving windows components to Rust. I’ve not against losing features here and there to get there, but blatantly ignoring security because it’s in Rust is downright stupid.
pkjqpg1h@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m not a programmar, why people very interest Rust?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It stops dangerous memory mistakes by design, forces safe handling of data, and eliminates the most commonly used vulnerabilities in C and C++
It encourages secure design, but that forces people who have been writing C/C++ for years to completely rethink how to do many things they’re very proficient at.