alt Hacker NewsYou can try to write it in Rust, doesn't mean you'll succeed. Rust targets the abstract machine, i.e. the wonderful land of optimizing compilers, which can copy your data anywhere they want and optimize out any attempts to scramble the bytes. What we'd need for this in Rust would be an integration with LLVM, and likely a number of modifications to LLVM passes, so that temporarily moved data can be tracked and erased. The only reason Go can even begin to do this is they have their own compiler suite.
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It's not clear to me how true your comment is. I think that if things were as unpredictable as you are saying, there would be insane memory leaks all over the place in Rust (let alone C++) that would be the fault of compilers as opposed to programs, which does not align with my understanding of the world.
I'm pretty sure you could do it with inline assembly, which targets the actual machine.
You could definitely zero registers that way, and a allocator that zeros on drop should be easy. The only tricky thing would be zeroing the stack - how do you know how deep to go? I wonder what Go's solution to that is...