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That's not a huge deal for 2 reasons. 1. Not all software is exposed to internets, or requires many 9-s in reliability like avionics. A videogame that crashes

That's not a huge deal for 2 reasons. 1. Not all software is exposed to internets, or requires many 9-s in reliability like avionics. A videogame that crashes their hardware-virtualized compartment on 1 out of 100k consoles is not OK, but might be good enough in practice if the unlucky users are refunded. 2. We have higher-level languages which solve these vulnerabilities for acceptable performance cost, and even easier to learn than C.

Nullabillity 6y ago
Most video games do connect to the internet these days.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  You are speaking of an industry whose game engines would be a giant unsafe block, given some of the current practices.
- Const-me 6y ago
  They run supervised (if you exploited a game, can't infect the OS), and they don't quite need the reliability.