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I feel like every one is using heartbleed to pitch their products.

• mercurial 13y ago
  I don't the author makes any claim to have invented ATS. But why not show why an alternative technology would have avoided this issue?
  • djjaxe 13y ago
    Just because this alternative language would have avoided this bug does not mean a much worse but would not have been created with a higher level language or even ATS.
    • mercurial 13y ago
      Well, people can write bad/unsafe code in any language. But ATS can remove entire classes of bugs from a program, while C is notorious for its lack of safety. Though obviously, it has no more built-in protection from side-channel attacks than C.
      • djjaxe 13y ago
        Basically the cut down to everything is the laziness of how it is developed and how many people are actually looking over the entire code. ATS allows the developers to know that the can be even more lackadaisical about coding as ATS will remove bugs for them...
        • mercurial 13y ago
          "There are collisions because people don't pay enough attention. Imagine if we installed a collision detection system, people would pay even less attention!" I hadn't heard this line of argument before.