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Did it really just say they want to do it in Rails? Never heard of anyone proving the safety of a Rails app. For that matter, not sure what language they shou

Did it really just say they want to do it in Rails? Never heard of anyone proving the safety of a Rails app. For that matter, not sure what language they should write it in. Maybe Standard ML? All I know is that Rails is awesome for building a lot of cool stuff very quickly - but there are better solutions for building a single thing that is indestructible.

goodkarma 17y ago
There's lots of different software involved here. They said "the election management components are built with Ruby on Rails". I don't want to get into an argument about the security of the Rails framework specifically - as an active developer I know there have been several issues - but I doubt anyone can guarantee that anything will be indestructible forever. If you felt strongly about it and wanted to rewrite that portion of their codebase in another language and framework, I'm sure they would accept your code contribution.