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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?

• Embedded programmers are better than most (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:05AM

  by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:05AM (#180565) Homepage Journal

  or rather, if you aren't regarded as a particularly good programmer, you won't be offered an embedded job.

  The problem we have is that many people still learn C as a first programming language, by following K&R's advice about the C standard library with scanf and strcpy.

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