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 "Imposing memory security in C" ( 2025 )

Sunday at 11:10, 15 minutes, H.2215 (Ferrer), H.2215 (Ferrer), Lightning Talks Maria Matejka , slides , video

They say that Rust is going to replace C. I don't believe that and I wanna share how we're doing memory-safe operations in BIRD's C code with no need to enforce this by the language paradigm. It's obviously possible to override that, yet with the right policies and processes in place, it is almost impossible.

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