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Rewrite it all in Rust! I mean D! Or... Zig maybe? Lots of valid IOT languages, but how many are actually in refrigerators or mice or keyboards or car door o
by galangalalgol 6y ago
Rewrite it all in Rust! I mean D! Or... Zig maybe? Lots of valid IOT languages, but how many are actually in refrigerators or mice or keyboards or car door oepners? That is a lot of inertia.
- pjmlp 6y agoMy point was fixing C, the ecosystems that value it after 50 years aren't going to rewrite their code into something else, as much as many of us would like it to happen.
- galangalalgol 6y agoYes, I was agreeing with you and forgot to tag my snarkyness as such.
- pjmlp 6y agoAh, sorry if I missed then. Here is one example from Apple in that regard, search for "Memory safe iBoot implementation". https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1902/en_US/app...