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Microsoft releases urgent Office patch. Russian-state hackers pounce. (arstechnica.com)
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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously the problem is that office was not written in a safe language. rewrite office in rust!

[–] dejpivo@lemmings.world 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I genuinely wonder if rust helps guarding against slop coding vulnerabilities, at least statistically.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

the compiler stops you from compiling most of incorrect code. unless AI learns to use unsafe blocks liberally, it will still prevent memory corruption bugs and such