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If you want it to be 100% bug free, there's really only one choice. Re-write the kernel in Rust. You'll be guaranteed to have no race conditions. It's impossible.

Exactly! This software should be re-written in Rust, ASAP! Any software that's mission critical at all shouldn't be written in anything but. Now that Rust's technology exists, it's…

This is such a good idea. When shell scripts are all written in Rust, Unix will be a safe and secure operating system.

If they used a language like Rust instead of Swift, iOS would be much more immune to these sorts of attack. There would be no side channels.

Rust may have a "higher learning curve" but it also takes a "learning curve" to learn to debug memory errors. I argue that it's actually quicker to learn Rust.

Rust may have a learning curve, but debugging memory errors has an even steeper one.

I think users want safety. And that means Borrow Checkers. It's 2018, no need to have languages that are inherently unsafe.