Discussions around memory safety often focus on choice of language, and how the language can provide memory safety guarantees. Unfortunately, choosing a language is a decision made at the start of a project. Migrating an existing C or C++ project to a safer language is much harder than starting a new project in a safe language1. I’m not going to say this is impossible, or that you can’t or shouldn’t migrate existing programs to safer languages. And sometimes people just do things in ope...| David Adrian
Plucky Puffin Release Notes Dedication Subscribers to the ubuntu-{devel-}announce mailing list and long term participants in the Ubuntu community will have come across Steve Langasek’s work. Steve, known in the community as vorlon, was a long-term member of the Release team (along with being a member of Archive Admin, Techboard, SRU team, and so on) and a colleague to many of us at Canonical. As a member of the Release team, Steve was responsible for devising many of the processes, policies...| Ubuntu Community Hub
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