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minus-squarexmo748@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·22 hours agoFair enough. Don’t you think it simplifies the issue a little bit? How long would it take to rewrite the entire TCP stack in rust?
minus-squarethingsiplay@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 hours agoI don’t think a rewrite in Rust is necessary for everything that has a bug. Instead fixing the bug is probably more secure, before such alternative Rust code is mature enough to replace it.
Fair enough. Don’t you think it simplifies the issue a little bit? How long would it take to rewrite the entire TCP stack in rust?
I don’t think a rewrite in Rust is necessary for everything that has a bug. Instead fixing the bug is probably more secure, before such alternative Rust code is mature enough to replace it.