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Language choice certainly is correlated with certain aspects of the outcome of a project but I continue to hold that it is not a causal factor. Causal factors w
by CyberRabbi 5y ago
Language choice certainly is correlated with certain aspects of the outcome of a project but I continue to hold that it is not a causal factor. Causal factors would be the quality of the team involved, the resources they were allotted, the requirements that were imposed on them, in that order.
E.g. you cannot expect an incompetent and resource-starved team with a poorly specified project to produce a good outcome simply because they were forced to work in Rust (or any language).
Language choice is incidental, not causal. In my experience, anyone who has operated otherwise has failed every single time.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agolanguages can't be a casual factor of success, but can be a casual factor of failure. if you write an OS in JavaScript, that will cause it to be slow. if you write an OS in C, that will cause it to have bigger overflows and use after free bugs.
- CyberRabbi 5y ago> if you write an OS in JavaScript, that will cause it to be slow. if you write an OS in C, that will cause it to have bigger overflows and use after free bugs A good team will use these languages in that domain in ways that these effects are limited. There is an appropriate place for JavaScript and C.
- adgjlsfhk1 5y agoAnd yet https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/33/Linux.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/33/Linux.html
- CyberRabbi 5y agoAnd yet what? What point are you refuting?