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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?

• Re:Ow! Re:Ow! (Score: 2) by mtrycz on Saturday May 09 2015, @08:38AM

  by mtrycz (60) on Saturday May 09 2015, @08:38AM (#180689)

  if you're using a language that has not yet been released, couldn't you just have stick with the same version of the compiler for the project?

  Just sayin'.

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• Re:Ow! (Score: 1) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday May 11 2015, @06:58PM

  by iWantToKeepAnon (686) on Monday May 11 2015, @06:58PM (#181583) Homepage Journal

  if you're using a language that has not yet been released

  If it isn't stable enough to compile code five days latter, then why the h@!! is there an article called "Death to C"? Don't gripe at the OP for doing something that is totally reasonable for a language being touted as the next "C(++) killer". I've heard that tune too many times and too many times it sounds and falls flat.

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