Hacker News with Generative AI: Memory Safety

Trapc – The Memory Safe C (theregister.com)
Exclusive C and C++ programmers may not need to learn Rust after all to participate in the push for memory safety.

Programming Languages, Memory Safety, C

7 points by synergy20 9 days ago | 0 comments

Can the 'Safe C++' proposal copy Rust's memory safety? (thenewstack.io)

Programming Languages, Rust, C++, Memory Safety

4 points by MilnerRoute 19 days ago | 0 comments

A comparison of Rust’s borrow checker to the one in C# (em-tg.github.io)
Behold: the classic example of rust’s zero-cost memory safety…

Programming Languages, Rust, C#, Memory Safety

332 points by SkiFire13 25 days ago | 323 comments

Memory safety without lifetime parameters (open-std.org)
This proposal describes the implementation of a memory-safe reference type that does not use lifetime annotations.

Programming Languages, Memory Safety, Software Development, C++

100 points by todsacerdoti 32 days ago | 42 comments

Memory Safety with MallocPlusAI (twitter.com)

Memory Safety, Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Software, Security

4 points by Apocryphon 34 days ago | 1 comments

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source (googleblog.com)
Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and building high-assurance software lies in Safe Coding, a secure-by-design approach that prioritizes transitioning to memory-safe languages.

Software Security, Memory Safety, Programming Languages

330 points by coffeeaddict1 57 days ago | 190 comments

Safe C++: Language Extensions for Memory Safety (cppalliance.org)
I am happy to announce that the C++ Alliance has formed a partnership with Sean Baxter, a renowned engineer, to develop the Safe C++ Extensions proposal.

C++, Programming Languages, Memory Safety, Security, Open Source

31 points by vinniefalco 70 days ago | 7 comments

Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases (googleblog.com)
Deploying Rust in existing firmware codebases is a promising way to mitigate memory safety issues and enhance the reliability of embedded systems.

Rust, Firmware, Embedded Systems, Memory Safety

211 points by pjmlp 77 days ago | 109 comments

Scpptool – a tool to enforce a memory and data race safe subset of C++ (github.com/duneroadrunner)

C++, Software, Memory Safety, Programming Tools

53 points by coffeeaddict1 83 days ago | 11 comments

Ampere: Making Future Software Memory-Safe, a Path Towards Secure Cloud (amperecomputing.com)

Software Security, Cloud Computing, Memory Safety, Hardware

4 points by pjmlp 138 days ago | 0 comments

C can be memory safe (erratasec.com)

Programming Languages, Security, Memory Safety

43 points by udev4096 154 days ago | 54 comments

Writing memory safe JIT compilers (medium.com)