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Everybody's brain works differently. Maybe C is the language for you. Maybe your tradeoffs are different from mine and you're ok with dealing with segfaults and
by atilaneves 7y ago
Everybody's brain works differently. Maybe C is the language for you. Maybe your tradeoffs are different from mine and you're ok with dealing with segfaults and security exploits. AFAIC if I never again have to write string handling code in C it'll be too soon."|"|"|"|
- sureaboutthis 7y agoThere are standard C libraries that handle strings very well. Are you saying other languages don't have security exploits? And in 35 years of writing in C, I have only had a very few segfaults while writing new code but never in production so I don't know why you think it happens so often unless your knowledge is only from reading reddit headlines.
- atilaneves 7y ago> There are standard C libraries that handle strings very well. I'm not aware of any. I've never encountered a language that is more frustrating than C to manipulate strings in. > Are you saying other languages don't have security exploits? No, I'm saying they have fewer. Far fewer. > And in 35 years of writing in C, I have only had a very few segfaults while writing new code but never in production Good for you. In 25 years of writing C and working with dozens of other programmers writing C in that time, I've lost count of how many segfaults and memory corruption errors I've had to debug. I don't miss those days and never want to go back. > unless your knowledge is only from reading reddit headlines. It is not. See above.