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This is a worse analogy because good nuclear plants exist. With C, I've yet to see a widely used library written by multiple humans in C that doesn't have criti
by adgjlsfhk1 4y ago
This is a worse analogy because good nuclear plants exist. With C, I've yet to see a widely used library written by multiple humans in C that doesn't have critical memory bugs.
- fxtentacle 4y agoLinux comes pretty close for practical usage. Or sqlite.
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agohttps://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html?vendor_id=33 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm... and https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=33&product_id=47&version_id=&page=1&hasexp=0&opdos=0&opec=0&opov=1&opcsrf=0&opgpriv=0&opsqli=0&opxss=0&opdirt=0&opmemc=0&ophttprs=0&opbyp=0&opfileinc=0&opginf=0&cvssscoremin=0&cvssscoremax=0&year=2022&month=0&cweid=0&order=3&trc=25&sha=0c6bafc0d41433be31a10f04664962b64905ce4f https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=.... Linux has new security vulnerabilities found every year due to memory issues caused by C.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoThose C code bases all get used and many have lives depending on them. Generally the really bad disasters are almost always narrowly avoided before they come to public attention. Why would your experience there make you think the good nuclear plants are any different?