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C is not sandboxed, and C has lots of undefined behavior. For those reasons, it is problematic for the web, which needs to let people view any site from any bro
by azakai 13y ago
C is not sandboxed, and C has lots of undefined behavior. For those reasons, it is problematic for the web, which needs to let people view any site from any browser and platform, in a safe way.
People have tried to "fix" those issues with C, and usually they end up going pretty far, ending up with stuff like the JVM or CLR.
- jheriko 13y agothis opinion is utterly unjustifiable imo and exactly what i mean by 'the old security arguments are obsolete' your comment suggest that you simply don't understand sandboxing and virtualisation i'm afraid. nor how the technology of the web works down to the metal.
- nkurz 13y agoAre you familiar with the joke that ends with the punchline "I don't know, but he's got the Pope for a driver"? For all I know, you have the knowledge and experience to hold your own, but do you realize that in just this thread you've defended your position by suggesting that (among others) the authors of Emscripten and Rust don't how understand the how the web works at a low level? This seems unlikely. I think you have a good point to make about the indirectness of asm.js, but your style of argument leaves something to be desired.