[6equj5]

> And yet, most of the time when somebody even realises they shouldn't write codecs (and file compression and various other similar technologies) in C++ their next guess is Rust which while obviously an improvement over C++ is hardly a good choice for this work either.

Not C++ nor Rust?! What then, tia? C? Ada??

[tialaramex]

It's certainly a conundrum isn't it. What programming language should we use for Wrangling Untrusted File Formats Safely ?

https://github.com/google/wuffs