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by dman 2771 days ago
Fortunately not everyone makes technical decisions using the wisdom of crowds.
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baby 2771 days ago
If people would switch to Rust and stop writing C the world would probably be a safer place yes.
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beefhash 2770 days ago
Given Rust's spotty platform support[1], I don't see that happening anytime soon.

[1] https://forge.rust-lang.org/platform-support.html

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SmellyGeekBoy 2770 days ago
It's possible to write unsafe code in any language.
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baby 2769 days ago
Come on... C doesn't initialize memory, doesn't manage memory, doesn't verify bounds for buffers, etc.

It's especially unsafe to write C.

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dman 2769 days ago
Thats why we have Java / Rust / Python / CSharp.
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baby 2769 days ago
My point.
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dman 2769 days ago
So we agree that we have different tools with different tradeoffs?
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