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Edward Snowden - The Insecurity Industry
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"Google said 70% of serious bugs in its Chrome Browser are related to memory safety. These can be reduced by using safer programming languages." Theoretically yes, but I doubt that's possible in the real world. Low-level programming languages are being used for performance reasons and not because people like to use them.
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That's the niche I think Rust is trying to fill, it's both low level, and provides the tools to be memory safe whenever you don't need unsafe code.
I mean yes, see https://servo.org/ It has to be seen if it's really going to be a usable browser engine, and if it will have less security issues.