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It should be considered a failure of our profession that after all these years the number 1 issue is still out of bounds write, a memory safety issue. In any tr
by matt2000 3y ago
It should be considered a failure of our profession that after all these years the number 1 issue is still out of bounds write, a memory safety issue. In any true engineering profession a failure of this sort would be unacceptable, but in ours it's tolerated and explained away as a necessary byproduct of certain tools. How much personal information has been compromised due to these low standards? How many people put at risk? It's shameful.
- pixl97 3y agoSo you want to be a licensed engineer to write software?
- timbit42 3y agoThis will eventually happen.
- 0xbadcafebee 3y agoIn any true engineering profession, we would still be using C, but with big orange safety vests on.