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Rust in peace: Memory bugs in C and C++ code cause security issues so Microsoft is considering alternatives once again

Wayland

Re: Pointers and memory allocation are the devil

I remember using C on a system that did not have memory allocation malloc(). Programs were far more reliable with static structures and arrays. Systems would run for 12 months or more and never crash or need a reboot.

Pointers and memory allocation are the devil.

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