Why Not Rust for Security?

I read a Why Not Rust? article the other day that was quite good but dismissed the most important reason to use a language to me: security. After having worked on a Rust codebase for almost two years now, I thought I would chime in, even though I’ll prefa… Read more

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A No_std Rust Binary

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