hello new (mostly infosec) followers! i consider C one of the worst programming languages ever designed, and i'm not going to shut up about it. better prepare yourself
-
Show this thread
-
please just slap me next time i try to alienate programmers i don't want to talk to by arguing with them, it never worked
9 replies 2 retweets 88 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @whitequark
What's your language of choice for something reasonably low-level (say LLVM or a database like PostgreSQL). While I really wish there were better answers than C and C++, I don't think we're *quite* there yet. Or do you consider C++ to have alleviated C's problems sufficiently?
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @AndresFreundTec
I use Rust a lot. Cranelift is a project similar to LLVM implemented in Rust. there's a bunch of databases but I'm not a database expert so I don't know if they're any good. I wrote a TCP/IP stack in it once, no unsafe codehttps://github.com/m-labs/smoltcp
1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @whitequark
Yea, rust is what I'm seeing having the biggest potential. For my world (PostgreSQL developer, with PG having pretty significant portability requirements) I think it's not yet quite there, but it's improving quickly.
1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
Cranelift looks interesting, but probably is a quite a bit away from where it'd suit PG's/my needs...
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.