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by MaxBarraclough
4433 days ago
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As others have pointed out above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7572092), the 'perfect JVM' is missing the point. The JVM aims to provide two things: 1: A high-level development environment which allows well-intentioned developers to avoid, say, buffer-overflow bugs 2: A sandbox, in which untrusted code can be safely run Java has a truly awful track-record on point 2 (running untrusted applets by default? awful idea), but a much better one on point 1, which is what's actually relevant here. > At some point no matter what your language, VM, OS is you are going to experience something similar. No. If all/nearly all of your OS is written in a safe language, it's going to be much safer from, say, buffer-overflow attacks. Unfortunately there aren't any such languages in major production use, so it's hard to point to concrete numbers. |
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