Making a library that can be linked into a C program is interesting because it c...

tsuraan on March 17, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look

Making a library that can be linked into a C program is interesting because it can also be linked into a program written in pretty much any language. OpenSSL is awful, but it has bindings to pretty much any language that you want, so it's very commonly used. Go's TLS will never have that, but one implemented in Rust could.