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If I could eliminate 17% of the bugs in a future code base by choosing to use a different language, I would need a strong reason not to.
by beart 7y ago
If I could eliminate 17% of the bugs in a future code base by choosing to use a different language, I would need a strong reason not to.
- madmax96 7y agoThe strong reason is given in the linked article. C is better supported, more stable, has more developers, and is better understood. Meanwhile many of these bugs could be caught by testing, which you should be doing anyway. You can also survive the effects of the bugs with other tools like stackguard with extremely low overhead, while still having the vast benefits of C described in the original article.
- pjmlp 7y agoWe have been hearing that matra for 40 years now, thankfully companies are finally getting wiser.