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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:12PM (#180514)

    Expecting things to happen by magic is not a great choice in *any* language. As this example, one out of thousands, does amply demonstrate: http://raid6.com.au/~onlyjob/posts/arena/ [raid6.com.au]

    If a craftsman does not know his tools, it is not the tools that are to blame.

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