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LoganDarktoday at 2:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

The safety can be worth it in certain cases. Like when handling untrusted input. And it's not just Rust: look at WUFFS for example. WUFFS can actually rival handwritten implementations in certain cases.


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xp84today at 3:56 PM

Are video codecs in the present day able to be sandboxed? In my fantasies at least I’d like the worst a malicious video file can do is cause garbage output or cause the codec to crash.

Forgive the ignorance, I have worked entirely in the abstracted layers of the stack, and mostly web.

throawayonthetoday at 3:12 PM

but not these cases

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