From the Hacker News thread
Pretty consistently [1] [2] [3] [4] it comes out that nearly %80 of security vulnerabilities come from memory safety vulnerabilities. I would consider that largest. Especially Microsoft's doc is pretty telling that this ratio was pretty consistent since 2006 so no amount of external tooling and training solves this. [1] langui.sh/2019/07/23/apple-memory-safet… (albeit apple solving this with an another language and a really nice cpu extension) [2] microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/blog/2019/07/w…... [3] security.googleblog.com/2019/05/queue-h…... [4] x.com/LazyFishBarrel/status/11290009657…