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> Perhaps one day unsafe programming languages will be forbidden to use. That would mean ruling out a whole lot of performance-critical software (including tha
by johnr2 7y ago
> Perhaps one day unsafe programming languages will be forbidden to use.
That would mean ruling out a whole lot of performance-critical software (including that written in unsafe Rust). Be careful what you wish for.
- speedgoose 7y agoI'm quite sure the performance hit will be fine in a few decades.
- fl0wenol 7y agoThat kind of thinking made sense twenty years ago where you could assume Moore's law was going to hold into the next decades.
- speedgoose 7y agoYou don't think we will have budget for a few safety checks?
- jsjddbbwj 7y agoThat's exactly the line of thinking that has made computers much less responsive than they were 20 years ago.