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Out of curiosity, why would C or C++ not be good for web services?
by 72deluxe 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why would C or C++ not be good for web services?
- mdaniel 6y agoI would guess because the input sanitizing requirement is harder for the web; having a stackoverflow when running locally requires the attacker to execute locally -- having a use-after-free from port 80 would be a much wider audience
- jd20 6y agoSome Apple services were written in C/C++. One downside is it's very hard to source engineers across the company who can then work on that code, or for those engineers to go work on other teams.