Rust makes a particular class of bugs harder to write. That’s it. It doesn’t magically eliminate all bugs. “Susceptible to rowhammer” is not in the class of bugs that Rust helps with.
No experienced Rust programmer actually believes it magically prevents all bugs or magically makes security-sensitive code immune to side channel attacks, so I don’t think anyone is being lulled into a false sense of security, no.
What about the Non-experienced Rust programmer? A lot of open source code are written by inexperienced people who understand the nuances of computer science primarily through hype. I think those are the kinds of people OP was asking about.
umanwizard|2 years ago
No experienced Rust programmer actually believes it magically prevents all bugs or magically makes security-sensitive code immune to side channel attacks, so I don’t think anyone is being lulled into a false sense of security, no.
delusional|2 years ago
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