20 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 13 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Help me answer a friend's question: are core maintainers a centralization risk? bitcoin
Bitcoin Core has a good track record with memory safety. So its not clear that Rust would be worth the risk of consensus failures in this case. But maybe. Certainly if you are going to take the risk, Rust would be maybe the only language worth switching to from C++.