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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?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by kaszz on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:16AM
The majority of programmers perhaps just lack the talent [soylentnews.org] and won't realize it, nor will their management. Because coincidentally they might also be cheap and say yes. Doing the homework [soylentnews.org] perhaps isn't done either. So this is first a cognitive bias failure and secondly perhaps a lack of realization that most people doesn't have what it takes to be a sharp programmer. So to run a code factory with code monkeys the languages are under pressure to adapt to the lowest common denominator.