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Wondering if the big influx of C derived CVE are old or new code. If it is new code, I'm also wondering about the brain damage that those safe languages causes.
by thesnide 4y ago
Wondering if the big influx of C derived CVE are old or new code. If it is new code, I'm also wondering about the brain damage that those safe languages causes.
Yes, it is better to have memory safe languages. But it encourages sloppiness as "nothing can happen". Then those folks aren't fit to write anything else. Which closes the feedback loop on inefficient but safe languages.
Which becomes the same thing in airplanes. Pilots don't really know how to fly without instruments anymore.
- wadd1e 4y ago>Which becomes the same thing in airplanes. Pilots don't really know how to fly without instruments anymore. Well that's just a blatantly wrong generalisation you made there, curious as to where you got that from. Consider looking up how pilot training is done before making such assumptions. Even though modern airplanes make heavy use of technology, there are emergency scenarios where lots of instruments may not work, and pilots receive more than enough training to fly an airplane in that scenario just to give one example among tons of others. edit: grammar
- thesnide 4y agoIt seems there's a difference between theory and practice. https://www.businessinsider.com/too-many-pilots-cant-handle-an-emergency-2014-12 https://www.businessinsider.com/too-many-pilots-cant-handle-... Now, I'm not an expert into pilots statistics, so my example might be off, but I do see a worrisome pattern in my daily work (software engineering). Blind reliance on those "frameworks". Which isn't bad in itself, but no-one really knows how they work anymore. They just assume. And that leads to lots of cargo cults. Which ranges from inefficient to outright dangerous.