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15 November 2025

  • curprev 17:2217:22, 15 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,772 bytes +8,772 Created page with "The Silent Revolution at the Edge For years, the edge of the network — firewalls, routers, intrusion detection systems — has been dominated by C and C++. From pfSense to Cisco ASA, the low-level control and speed of C made it the default. But quietly, a new player has been rewriting this story: Rust. Today, security appliances built in Rust are moving from hobby projects to production deployments. Companies like Cloudflare, Fastly, and even defense tech startups are..."