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I would take anything Dr Hipp says very seriously. While he may be wrong, I wouldn't discard his thoughts without some facts to back it up. SQLite, both its fun
by RHSeeger 8y ago
I would take anything Dr Hipp says very seriously. While he may be wrong, I wouldn't discard his thoughts without some facts to back it up. SQLite, both its functionality and amazing test suite, as well as his other achievements, certainly make him worthy of my respect.
- tptacek 8y agoNot to be snarky, but because it's relevant to the discussion: https://www.zdnet.com/article/sqlite-bug-impacts-thousands-of-apps-including-all-chromium-based-browsers/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sqlite-bug-impacts-thousands-o... This stuff doesn't happen in Go and Rust programs.
- apta 8y agoWhat does that specifically have to do with golang or Rust?
- tptacek 8y agoHipp's argument --- which comes kind of out of nowhere in his post --- is that Go is unsuitable as a serious systems language because it lacks compile-time asserts. Which is, I think, ironic, because his language is C, and so produces memory corruption vulnerabilities that languages like Go and Rust preclude. I'd rather have Go's guarantees than C's.