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> the problems they try to solve are not painful enough. The lack of safety is not painful enough? There is an entire industry (i.e. job sector, training, expe
by heresie-dabord 1y ago
> the problems they try to solve are not painful enough.
The lack of safety is not painful enough? There is an entire industry (i.e. job sector, training, expertise) that evolved to try to thwart bad actors abusing unsafe languages.
- wolvesechoes 1y agoBut neither Zig nor Odin solve this problem. The only serious attempt is Rust.
- bnolsen 1y agoRust is super heavy handed in how it does it.
- stephc_int13 1y agoSee. Rust fans are often naïve believers in silver bullet solutions. Computer security and exploitation is a complex and difficult topic. Bad actors are looking for vulnerabilities to build exploits, some are related to memory corruption but many of the most sophisticated ones are not. All programs are potentially unsafe, regardless of the language. Using a language like Rust can help to some extent, but it won't be sufficient if the programmer is too ignorant about code hardening. You can't replace experts with the flip of a switch.