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One interesting technique to reduce the review burden in Home Assistant, a project with a large community: ask PR authors to review other PRs! Screenshot is from

Fascinating deep dive on Twitch deliberately constructing a 10GiB array to reduce the number of GC cycles in Go: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i-learnt-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-heap/ (This trick is no longer necessary in the new Go 1.19 apparently, as it's added a GOMEMLIMIT environment variable.)

Adding LLVM control flow integrity to make exploits harder is coming to Rust: https://rcvalle.com/docs/rust-cfi-design-doc.pdf The primary use case is mixing C/C++ with Rust: you have weaker memory safety guarantees and hardening is still necessary. You don't want a partial Rust port to reduce security!