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

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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:00PM (#180509)

    What do Soylent's coders think about this?

    I think this sounds like a puff piece written by a used car salesman desperately trying to move a lemon off the lot. Seriously, does the author of this article have some sort of financial stake in this?

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