Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time. No matter how much we try, GNOME developers will fail write secure code...
Right. I suspect what the author meant was more like “you can’t write a useful Rust program without using lots of external packages”. A comment on the ecosystem, not the language.
Of course, you could also say “you can’t write a useful C++ program without reinventing a bunch of wheels insecurely”.
Right. I suspect what the author meant was more like “you can’t write a useful Rust program without using lots of external packages”. A comment on the ecosystem, not the language.
Of course, you could also say “you can’t write a useful C++ program without reinventing a bunch of wheels insecurely”.
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