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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: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2015, @10:37PM (#180531)

    The parent comment isn't a troll. Somebody should fix that shitting modding.

    Anyone who has followed the Rust community knows it's fucking rife with hipsters. Anyone who has worked with software developed by hipsters will know how fucking shitty their creations are.

    Hipsters can't create good software. Their whole way of life revolves around rejecting the years of experience required to create good software.

    Hipsters are generally teenagers and 20-somethings who are totally clueless about doing things properly.

    I don't even give a fuck if they're on my yard. I'd rather them be on my yard, sticking ironic beer up one another's anuses, than writing software.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:26AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:26AM (#180577) Journal

    Any tip on other computer languages that are rife with hipster idiocy?

    • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @04:38AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @04:38AM (#180640)

      Ruby, obviously.

      JavaScript is the other big one.

      Go is another one.

      Haskell is up there, too.