| ▲ | jiggawatts 25 days ago | |
Most of these are solved problems to one degree or another. Web browsers have generally switched over to decoding legacy unsafe formats like PDF using safe managed languages, typically JavaScript. > JBIG2 and CCITT Fax Since performance isn't such a critical concern with obscure legacy formats, it really wouldn't be much more than a day or two of work for a competent developer with AI agent tooling to convert an existing decoder to safe Rust. Meta set nearly a hundred billion dollars on fire for a total failure that everybody saw coming, a trillion dollars is what the current AI investment crazy is pouring into concrete and TSMC chips, but... a couple of days for a developer is asking too much!? | ||
| ▲ | anthk 24 days ago | parent [-] | |
> legacy unsafe formats like PDF using safe managed languages, typically JavaScript. Are you ironic? If any JS and v8 have tons of CVE's. Stop being deluded with these hip languages. Rust? you wish. Maybe inferno with proper namespaces AND in-kernel namespace support. No, not like Linux. LIke 9front. | ||