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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 09 2015, @12:04PM
It just goes to show that the Troll modifier should be removed, since it's never used correctly here. That comment isn't even an attempt to troll, obviously. It's just some very insightful insight. It should be 5, Insightful.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday May 10 2015, @08:31PM
Wouldn't matter. Some people are just douchebags and will use any means at their disposal to downmod you simply because they don't like what you have to say. We'd have to remove all downmods to remove that possibility and that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater*.
* Which is an expression I don't really get since babies are nothing but loud, smelly, annoying crap machines.
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