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Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half of the Internet Went Down
- amcclure 10mo ago53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.
- gus_massa 10mo agoRust protects you about memory use error, on all the other errors you are on your own. I once wrote > something_something(a, b, 0) instead of > something_something(a, b, 1) No compiler will detect that. Maybe an AI review, but it was like 10 years ago, before the AI era.
- Craighead 10mo ago[dead]