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Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes
patchingtheunpa
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I suppose they are more interested in selling subscriptions than making programming more of a sound engineering discipline...
DiabloD3
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Why are you still using languages that make it trivial to write most kinds of security bugs? Microsoft has written more than one language, they have/had in-house talent on how to do this, and one of those languages is C#, which bootstrapped itself after the whole Sun v. Microsoft case (the one where Microsoft tried to EEE Java, and Sun yanked their technology license; Microsoft then just removed Java(tm) and made their own replacement dialect on-top of their homegrown VM)...
But more importantly, for the things that can't, or shouldn't, be written in C#... they have hired a lot of ex-Mozilla Rust developers (the ones that left during Mitchell Baker's disastrous attempt to fire "rockstar developers") to get that ball rolling on that.
Why hasn't a majority of the important code been rewritten in Rust yet? Not only that, Microsoft/Github advertises that LLMs are really super good at doing language-changing rewrites, so why aren't they dog fooding this and/or are they admitting that LLMs can't do this?