Microsoft To Explore Using Rust

'Microsoft plans to explore using the Rust programming language as an
alternative to C, C++, and others, as a way to improve the security
posture of its and everyone else's apps. From a report:

The announcement was made yesterday by Gavin Thomas, Principal
Security Engineering Manager for the Microsoft Security Response
Center (MSRC). "You're probably used to thinking about the Microsoft
Security Response Center as a group that responds to incidents and
vulnerabilities," Thomas said. "We are a response organization, but we
also have a proactive role, and in a new blog series we will highlight
Microsoft's exploration of safer system programming languages,
starting with Rust." The end game is to find a way to move developers
from the aging C and C++ programming language to so-called
"memory-safe languages." Memory-safe languages, such as Rust, are
designed from the ground up with protections against memory corruption
vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, race conditions, memory
leaks, use-after free and memory pointer-related bug'

-- source: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/07/17/1630241

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
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