Hello, Some programming languages like Rust-Lang are secure. How about Julia? Thank you.

Julia is not “safe” or secure in the way that Rust is. If you need that level of safety, Julia is not a suitable language for you. But maybe you can elaborate on your use case, and Julia might be “safe enough”

Rust isn’t “secure”, it’s memory-safe, in contrast to languages like C/C++ which are inherently not memory-safe. In C/C++ You can do whatever you want in memory. For example: Many security flaws in C/C++ programs are due to things like pointer arithmetic, re-pointing variables, deleting the variable…

Related: [image] Secure coding in Julia? General Usage Hi all, Someone asked a question on the ModernJuliaWorkflows repo, and I have no clue how to answer. They are looking for tools related to SAST (Static Analysis Security Testing) and SCA (Software Composition Analysi…

[image] Qfl3x: Julia is Garbage Collected, which while providing “near” Rust safety most of the time, it can’t guarantee the safety. To slightly elaborate on this, julia should also be memory safe (apart from bugs in the implementation of internal functions), but doesn’t guarantee safety in t…

[image] Qfl3x: I would go with Zig which offers most of Rust’s safety but without all the hopping around lifetimes or ludicrous async Zig doesn’t offer any of Rust’s memory safety. It has the same unsafe design as C, other than having slightly better paradigms to avoid some of the worser C co…

Secure coding in Julia? They are looking for tools related to SAST (Static Analysis Security Testing) I don’t think that there is any such tool for Julia. On the other hand it is mostly - but not only - needed for memory unsafe languages like C/C++. I mean, there are tools to statically analy…

An elaborated explanation of this would be very helpful for the community to have. The information may get more circulation written as a Julia blog entry. I am not sufficiently conversant with the details to contribute the entry.

[image] ufechner7: Secure coding in Julia? They are looking for tools related to SAST (Static Analysis Security Testing) I don’t think that there is any such tool for Julia. I think that isn’t true. It seems semgrep is for that, a tool I didn’t know of until the other day (see JuliaCon…

[image] JeffreySarnoff: An elaborated explanation of this would be very helpful for the community to have. WIP here: Add devdocs on UB JuliaLang:master ← JuliaLang:kf/ubdocs opened 06:42AM -…

Hello, Thank you so much for your reply. The problem of garbage collection is the slow execution time. Is Python more secure or Julia?

Is Julia safe?

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