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Death to C

posted by CoolHand on Friday May 08 2015, @09:01PM   Printer-friendly
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?

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by snick on Friday May 08 2015, @09:33PM

    by snick (1408) on Friday May 08 2015, @09:33PM (#180493)

    Everyone should stop using C/C++ and start using a language in beta ... for Security reasons!!!

    Kids are *sooooo* cute.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @01:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @01:50AM (#180599)

    Everyone should stop using C/C++ and start using a language in beta ... for Security reasons!!!

    Kids are *sooooo* cute.

    C'mon, it's not just the kids/hipsters who are to blame for this. What is the prize for the first person to spot a job advertisement specifying "must have 5+ years programming in Rust". I would like to know now because I'm sure these will become ubiquitous within the next few months.