alt Hacker NewsRust and go don't have a C backbone like PHP does. So they are inherently safer to these kinds of vulnerabilities.
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barelysapient • today at 7:59 PM
it's a good point. I wonder if we'll see a PHP fork and rewrite in rust. like tcrs. given the recently issues they would seem to benefit the most...
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Garbage collection is also an option. Lots of backends on the JVM!
(Of course there's Log4shell, but that could've happened to a Rust-based stack too, and might be more likely to, considering the proliferation of deeply-nested dependency trees full of tiny libraries in that ecosystem.)