It's hard to appreciate how good Rustls is at avoiding UaF since UaF avoidance is taken for granted in idiomatic Rust code. Tiny things like `#[must_use]` are small but help avoid big failures. Our friends doing concurrency & malloc/free in C are still struggling w/ the basics.
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Trying to write C/C++ after writing Rust feels ridiculous. Why should I have to keep track of things that the compiler can do for me, especially when the consequences are exploitable security bugs?
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I agree. Though to be care, In C++ one rarely has to keep track of things manually, in modern codebases. Our experience maintaining a gigantic performance-sensitive legacy app that predates even the first ISO C++ (IIRC) biases us too much against C++.
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Replying to @BRIAN_____ @TedMielczarek
It seems to me that we've done okayish at modernizing the Mozilla-native C++ code. At least in contrast to IPC, which is a nightmare even though its original authorship is more recent.
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I think the push for modernization of C++ in both Chromium and Firefox was after Firefox forked it.
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