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"Google can't just rip and replace Chromium's existing C++ code with memory safer Rust, but it is working on ways to improve the memory safety of C++ by scanning heap-allocated memory." -- author

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Programming languages: How Google is improving C++ memory safety

Google's Chrome is looking to bring memory safety to Chrome's C++ codebase.

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> Google can't just rip and replace Chromium's existing C++ code with memory safer Rust They've started doing exactly that in Android. They could be doing it in Chromium. They didn't have to make a choice between using Rust or adding more mitigations. They could be doing both.

3:20 PM · Jun 12, 2022Twitter Web App

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