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Fortunately not everyone makes technical decisions using the wisdom of crowds.

• baby 8y ago
  If people would switch to Rust and stop writing C the world would probably be a safer place yes.
  • beefhash 8y ago
    Given Rust's spotty platform support[1], I don't see that happening anytime soon. [1] https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html
  • SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    It's possible to write unsafe code in any language.
    • baby 8y ago
      Come on... C doesn't initialize memory, doesn't manage memory, doesn't verify bounds for buffers, etc. It's especially unsafe to write C.
      • dman 8y ago
        Thats why we have Java / Rust / Python / CSharp.
        • baby 8y ago
          My point.
          • dman 8y ago
            So we agree that we have different tools with different tradeoffs?
            • baby 8y ago
              Of course, for now. But I still disagree that it is as easy (or hard) to write C without bugs as in any other languages. Most people should not write C.
              • dman 8y ago
                In the same vein - if you happen to be stuck in a problem domain where counting/avoiding allocations is important the other languages I listed above (even C++ really) make things very hard. Rust has a decent take on building a safer c++ (with what appears to be C++ levels of complexity). Would like something similar to emerge for C.