I'm not sure why they'd benefit from that, but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.
For once I'm taking a not-conspiratorial line and think it's just all concerned parties wanting fewer bugs in software. But it does lead to an interesting line of thought for Mozilla...
>but it's interesting Microsoft has been going hard on evangelising Rust.
Microsoft put a report out a while ago that memory safety issues account for over 70% of security bugs in microsoft products[1] which they attribute to unsafe languages in the codebase so it seems natural that they're interested in Rust.
For once I'm taking a not-conspiratorial line and think it's just all concerned parties wanting fewer bugs in software. But it does lead to an interesting line of thought for Mozilla...