Safer Usage of C++ (Chromium)

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I can't help but feel after reading this proposal that what they want is Rust but with 30 years of libraries tools.

That's also what I thought, but without the "30 years of libraries tools" part.

As soon as I read it, I went like "so...you want Rust?" lol

It will cost a lot to migrate their existing code base to Rust, unless they figure out a way to interoperate between C++ and Rust, until they migrate bit by bit to pure Rust code...I don't see any other way to be honest with you :/

Update: Seems like they are already doing something like that [1]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

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