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by nullc
1426 days ago
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So advocates of memory safe (or even high level, period) programming languages are just showing off their incompetence in your book? Would you say to an advocate of C (much less ... rust): Look man, real programmers write in boolean circuits. Programming is hard, sure, but the engineers at Facebook, Reddit, and Clouflare are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to show off their expertise. Is it that much to ask for them to read into details multiplication circuits? :) Leapseconds causing widespread failures isn't a hypothetical, just like buffer overflows aren't. Yet, in theory, with perfectly competent development ... Yet even with perfect competence leapseconds are still pretty gnarly: They require systems have a trustworthy and consistent source of the list of leapseconds. ... and they mean that you fundamentally cannot predict the amount of time between two UTC timestamps when one or more of them is more than 6 months in the future... and no amount of competence can fix that. |
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