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>rely on industry-proof languages (derived/based on C) to be safe looking at the CVS list with the amazement C is the Javascript of system programming: weakly
by ernst_klim 8y ago
>rely on industry-proof languages (derived/based on C) to be safe
looking at the CVS list with the amazement
C is the Javascript of system programming: weakly typed, everything is an int, error prone, popular, nobody knows all the pitfalls.
- IloveHN84 8y agoI said based on C, not C. Alone C11 brings much more compared to C89. But C++ and C# are pretty solid and robust. Rust is the newcomer, perhaps Go..
- ernst_klim 8y agoC++ and Rust borrow their good parts from ML and Ada, not from C.
- zozbot123 8y agoThe "good part" of Rust compared to its closest alternatives is the machine model, which is straight C. You can even directly transpile C into Unsafe Rust.