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by matt2000 1072 days ago
It should be considered a failure of our profession that after all these years the number 1 issue is still out of bounds write, a memory safety issue. In any true engineering profession a failure of this sort would be unacceptable, but in ours it's tolerated and explained away as a necessary byproduct of certain tools. How much personal information has been compromised due to these low standards? How many people put at risk? It's shameful.
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In any true engineering profession, we would still be using C, but with big orange safety vests on.
So you want to be a licensed engineer to write software?
This will eventually happen.