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The good thing about something like this (in the abstract) is that you've potentially got many users hammering the facilities in many ways, and it becomes battl
by bch 11y ago
The good thing about something like this (in the abstract) is that you've potentially got many users hammering the facilities in many ways, and it becomes battle-hardened as a result. To this end, Colin hisself is sort of doing this w/ libcperciva[0] to a degree. One library of common code shared among many projects.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10099294
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThat's a true benefit of using C. The more people know the language, the more people who can comprehend and improve the software. Goes for more than just security in terms of what's improved. Now, will this happen for a given project? Different issue entirely which might justify using an inherently, safer language.