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It's swiss-army chainsaw juggling with a kitchen-sink of unnecessary features, bloat, and poor coding hygiene. C isn't the problem per se, it's the lack of qua
by airhead969 6y ago
It's swiss-army chainsaw juggling with a kitchen-sink of unnecessary features, bloat, and poor coding hygiene.
C isn't the problem per se, it's the lack of quality, formal rigor, and testing that these slap-dash developers foist on the world. It's a steaming pile, and people wonder why it has security vulnerabilities over and over again. It's doing the same damn thing and expecting a different result: C maybe part of it, but its developers just aren't that great.
- rafaelturk 6y agoCan't wait for your PR!
- ori_b 6y agohttps://www.libressl.org/ https://www.libressl.org/
- nightpool 6y agoAs mentioned down-thread, LibreSSL patched a use-after-free just last week.
- airhead969 6y agoIt's a fork of swiss-army chainsaw juggling with training wheels. It is a slowly-dying project because it's not keeping up and distros are dropping it. It's not a viable alternative.
- ori_b 6y agoAnd yet, it's managed to avoid many of the OpenSSL CVEs. It's not a "viable alternative" because nobody cares enough to test their code against it.