Comment by saagarjha
2 years ago
They’re working on it, but a memory-safe language doesn’t help you in some of the surface that the attackers exploited here.
2 years ago
They’re working on it, but a memory-safe language doesn’t help you in some of the surface that the attackers exploited here.
I think memory safety + integer overflow checking by default would have blocked many of these. Not the hardware mitigation disable but getting to the point where that matters required some safety problems that can be excluded by better languages.