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by pixl97 330 days ago
C on the modern web would terrify me. Devs are bad enough with interpreted languages, I can't imagine most of them using a language with a howitser sided footgun.
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Yes we had a couple good issues in there.

In particular I remember one bug where a pointer to a local variable was returned by a function. It worked on our development environment which was apparently more forgiving than our production environment.

Why were they different? Because they were actual servers and the production one was the expensive DEC Alpha while the development server was something less expensive (my memory fails me as to the exact machine).