Comment by redox99
4 hours ago
Rust and go don't have a C backbone like PHP does. So they are inherently safer to these kinds of vulnerabilities.
4 hours ago
Rust and go don't have a C backbone like PHP does. So they are inherently safer to these kinds of vulnerabilities.
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.)
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...
There are plenty of alternative interpreters or compilers out there already, no need to start a new one again: https://github.com/gakowalski/alternative-interpreters#alter...