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		steveklabnik on April 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Strlcpy and Strlcat – Consistent, Safe, String Cop... It is not as well known, but I just saw a recording of a guy named David Weston, giving a talk called "Default Security" at BlueHat IL 2023, and he talks about how Windows is porting core components over to Rust, and there's in fact already a syscall implemented in it. It's not just Linux!

pjmlp on April 25, 2023 [–]

Indeed, great talk, but as he reckons, it is going to take years to fix C and derived languages flaws.

We are decades away from OSes using memory safe languages across all layers.

In the meantime, the security story of C, C++ and Objective-C also needs continuous improvement, of which bare bones C is the worse.

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