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I get that we can't always do what we want in our jobs (and in some places quite rarely even). I get it fully and I sympathize. But that still doesn't do C/C++
by pdimitar 2y ago
I get that we can't always do what we want in our jobs (and in some places quite rarely even). I get it fully and I sympathize.
But that still doesn't do C/C++ any favors. None of my Rust contracting work ever resulted in a buffer overflow.
- pjmlp 2y agoAnd it doesn't need to be Rust, as the anti-seat belt folks always are quick to complain about, plenty of systems languages since PL/I and NEWP days have bounds checks by default. Back in the days we were arguing for Ada, Modula-2, Object Pascal on Usenet, we were straitjacket programming advocates apparently.
- pdimitar 2y agoHaha, nice analogy, thank you. :) And yeah I am gradually giving up on arguing with people who are extremely biased but point at me and blame me for being biased. Seems there's no win. I actually regret engaging so thoroughly in this thread but once started I figured I'll not budge and will hold my ground. I am anti-group-think that way. I haven't engaged in such threads in a while and I think the next time around is going to be months in the future. We'll see.