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> In another 20 years will we be saying the same thing about java that people say about C and C++? And will we be telling people to switch to the latest and gre
by nequo 4y ago
> In another 20 years will we be saying the same thing about java that people say about C and C++? And will we be telling people to switch to the latest and greatest because Java is "unsafe"?
As long as the vulnerability types that cause trouble in language B are a superset of those that cause trouble in language C, it makes sense to recommend moving from B to C for safety reasons.
This is true even if there is a language A that is even worse and in the absence of language C, we recommended moving from A to B. Code written in A will be worse in expectation than code written in B than code written in C.