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You sound like the people who argue that, despite decades of security vulnerabilities offering evidence otherwise, C is perfectly safe if you know what you’re d
by macintux 2y ago
You sound like the people who argue that, despite decades of security vulnerabilities offering evidence otherwise, C is perfectly safe if you know what you’re doing and just put more effort into it.
Technically you may be right, but it’s not a helpful viewpoint. What the world needs are abstractions that are easier to understand and program correctly, not assertions that everyone else is doing it wrong and just needs to be smarter/work harder.
- latchkey 2y agoThat's absurd, I'm not arguing anything of the sort. If you want an analogy, I'm arguing that a condom helps prevent STD's and unwanted pregnancies. It isn't perfect, but at least it is better than not wearing a condom at all. Nobody loves wearing a condom, but we do it cause it is the right thing to do.
- dymk 2y agoYou can't prove away chlamydia or an unwanted pregnancy, but you can provably eliminate whole classes of logic errors by having more powerful type systems.
- latchkey 2y ago100%. Compilers for the win for sure. It was a big reason why I started to write Java code and move away from PHP. This lead me to co-found Java @ Apache.