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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: 3, Disagree) by Anal Pumpernickel on Saturday May 09 2015, @03:18AM
Their credibility is hurt because they broke some arbitrary 'rule' you try to impose on others? What does that even mean, and why does it matter? Their entire comment is right there; respond to the points you think are dubious or don't. "credibility" doesn't even factor into it for some random comment on Soylentnews, and their credibility isn't hurt merely because they posted as AC or used the word "hipster."
If you've got some problem with their comment, then put forth your logical arguments.
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @04:32AM
Nobody really listens to Turk, and nobody cares what Turk says. He's pretty much just ignored around here.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday May 09 2015, @05:17AM
What does that even mean, and why does it matter?
That question was answered later in my post.
If you've got some problem with their comment, then put forth your logical arguments.
I did.
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