do memory safe languages matter less now?
do memory safe languages matter less now?
Posted Apr 22, 2026 18:46 UTC (Wed) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152)In reply to: do memory safe languages matter less now? by josh
Parent article: Firefox: The zero-days are numbered
From the few bug reports I had the opportunity to see, the tool is powerful enough to find complex logic bugs. That places all languages on the same ground. And I would even suggest that some simple usual traditional operations that force you to more complex approaches in memory safe languages to satisfy the compiler's imposed constraints might even be more likely to trigger logic bugs than in traditional languages precisely because of the difficult constraints. So... we'll see.
I think that for now these tools are mostly trained on existing code base and that C, PHP, JS and Python are so much common that they might be more efficient there than on newer and less represented languages like Rust or Zig for example. Thus even the initial statistics do not mean much for the long term. This is an area that progresses in big steps.
