Comment Oh, Greg (Score 4, Interesting) 134
> Most of those vulnerabilities, he argued, are not exotic attacks but simple C mistakes — unchecked pointers, forgotten unlocks, and sloppy cleanup paths: "This is what we're fixing 13 times a day. Small, trivial, little bugs like this all the time.... I've seen every CVE the kernel has done in the past 25 years. I think 80% would be gone, just because they would be caught by Rust."
Sorry Greg, but this won't happen. Rust is such a difficult language to work in, that the only people who will use it are the ones who don't make those simple mistakes in C anyway. You're just going to have a handful of expert C programmers become mediocre Rust developers.