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1. Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 09:27:09 JST Adrian Cochrane

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   • Colby Russell

   @colby They should be rewritten in Haskell! /s

   Actually might not be a bad idea...

   • Colby Russell (colby@kosmos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 09:27:12 JST Colby Russell

     In a front-page story about a potential vulnerability in an Android app decompiler, an HN commenter brings up vulnerabilities arising from memory corruption bugs in binutils.

     Change my view: there's little reason to maintain+propagate the traditional C implementation for objdump, readelf, &c, or to recommend them—BUT I'm not saying they should be rewritten in Rust, either. Rather, the most sensible target to port these tools to is... JavaScript. (Specifically, browser-compatible JavaScript.)