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So basically all the stuff that noone cares about? Maybe it's only a runtime if you really want to win a pointless argument?
by jstimpfle 7y ago
So basically all the stuff that noone cares about? Maybe it's only a runtime if you really want to win a pointless argument?
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- pjmlp 7y agoHow Apple, Google, Microsoft, Sony, ARM are now steering the industry regarding their OS SDKs has already proven who is on the right side. I have been at this since the BBS days, I don't care about Internet brownie points. The only thing left is actually having some liabily in place for business damages caused by exploits, I am fairly confident that it will eventually happen, even if it takes a couple of more years or decades to arrive there.
- jstimpfle 7y agoClaiming that a little process startup code (that isn't really part of a particular language, but is much more part of the OS ABI) was easier to exploit than an entire JRE is just dishonest. I would never think of "floating point emulation, handling of signals on non-UNIX OSes, VLAs" as anything resembling a "runtime". These are mostly irrelevant anyway, but apart from that they are just little library nuggets or a few assembly instructions that get inserted as part of the regular compilation. By "runtime", I believe most people mean a runtime system (like the JRE), and that is an entirely different world. It runs your "compiled" byte code because that can't run on its own.
- pjmlp 7y agoI care about computer science definitions, not what most people think. Dishonest is selling C to write any kind of quality software, specially anything conected to the Internet, unless one's metrics about quality are very low.