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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?

• When the fuck will Rust 1.0 be out? (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:27PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:27PM (#180524)

  As shitty as Rust code is, when the fuck will Rust 1.0 finally be out? It was promised to us like 6 months ago, and I'm pretty sure it was supposed to have been out even before then.

  Why can't the Rusters get their shit together? Why the fuck can't they get Rust 1.0 out the door?

  They're starting to make Perl 6 look like less of a tragedy.

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