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Comment by yoyohello13 | Hacker News Reader

I haven’t seen a positive Rust article hit HN in over a year. Seems the zeitgeist has turned against it. All it took was the US government giving the thumbs up I guess.

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On the other hand, lets face it: most of the time security in IT systems is the least priority. I mean after shipping fast, iterate fast, better performance, compatibility, architecture soundness (whatever it is), convenient tests, docs with UML diagram, well-designed interface — and somewhere in a distant drawer on the bottom you may find a note about security issues. It's often times people talk about importance of security after it destroyed the whole business.

We need more of the security. We probably don't need the Rust though.

security incident destroying a business is so rare and penalties for security breaches are non-existent and hence while everyone talks “security is important” it really isn’t all that important - in vast majority of the situations. I mean, fucking experian, the company whose sole purpose for existence is collecting and keeping data on everyone safe leaked everyone’s data and everyone was like “oh ok, thats cool, carry on…”

>We probably don't need the Rust though.

Uhm, I would have picked Rust just for shipping fast, iterating fast, better performance and compatibility. The security is a bonus that comes along for the ride. You probably haven't had the displeasure to work with C++ in combination with ROS. That experience really soured me on C++.

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