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Death to C

posted by CoolHand on Friday May 08 2015, @09:01PM   
from the off-with-its-head dept.

Teckla writes in with an article promoting "Death to C":

Ladies and gentlemen, the C programming language. It’s a classic. It is blindingly, quicksilver fast, because it’s about as close to the bone of the machine as you can get. It is time-tested and ubiquitous. And it is terrifyingly dangerous.

The author's biggest issue with the C language seems to be security holes:

If you write code in C, you have to be careful not to introduce subtle bugs that can turn into massive security holes — and as anyone who ever wrote software knows, you cannot be perfectly careful all of the time.

The author claims that the Rust language is a modern answer to these issues and should replace C (and C++). It does look that Rust can run C code, so it looks like an interesting proposition. What do Soylent's coders think about this?

• Another hipster promoting another hipster language Another hipster promoting another hipster language (Score: 2, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @09:25PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @09:25PM (#180486)

  News at 11.

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• Re:Another hipster promoting another hipster langu (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @02:27AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @02:27AM (#180602)

  Yes, and they will promote another hipster language next week/month.

  Whats with the modding trolls? More reason to browse at -1.

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