I don’t really thing the security ‘guarantees’ of rust matter that much.
I think it’s a better language to work in than C or C++, though. That’s not a reason to change utilities now, but a larger Rust ecosystem is always better in my humble opinion.
Yes that’s the major selling point in the Rust language in my opinion. Memory safety. Most of the security issues you hear about are because of mismanaged memory, specifically buffer overflows. My understanding is that Rust reduces risk of those by catching them at compile time.
Honest question…why?
Some have better ux, some support more platforms out of the box. I don’t find it a good idea trying to replace everything though.
I only tend to replace if all of those are met:
So far, only things I’ve actually replaced are aliasing
lstoexa/eza, and switched toripgrepfor most of my uses ofgrep.Because Rust is better, hurr-durr.
Forgor the /s
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Turns out Lemmy isn’t better at understanding sarcasm than Reddit lol.
Utilities built in Rust have a higher potential for better security, all else being equal.
Uhhhhh, they do?
I don’t really thing the security ‘guarantees’ of rust matter that much.
I think it’s a better language to work in than C or C++, though. That’s not a reason to change utilities now, but a larger Rust ecosystem is always better in my humble opinion.
Yes that’s the major selling point in the Rust language in my opinion. Memory safety. Most of the security issues you hear about are because of mismanaged memory, specifically buffer overflows. My understanding is that Rust reduces risk of those by catching them at compile time.