In Rust we trust: Shoring up Apache, ISRG ditches C, turns to wunderkind lang for new TLS crypto module

Posted by bob on Feb 2, 2021 8:31 PM EDT
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Elder server httpd to be revitalized with Google-funded memory-safe add-on. At almost 26 years old, the Apache HTTP Server, known as httpd, has a memory problem: it is written in C, a language known among other things for its lack of memory safety.…

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