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Prossimo project aims to replace memory unsafe C/C++ code with Rust (www.memorysafety.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by morpheus17pro@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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The projects they want to make safer includes Linux, curl, sudo, among others.

Just found it and I think this will be interesting for this community.

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[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago

Sounds good. Hopefully they also find some way to dynamically link libraries, to make the binary size and memory footprint smaller, compared to common rust programs.