An inconvenient truth: The people who write the most widespread C/C++ vulnerabilities tend to be the *best* programmers. That’s because “bad programmers” aren’t able to usefully hack on widely used low-level software to begin with. The core Linux devs are very good.
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Say what you will about Chrome, Firefox, the Windows kernel, Linux, nginx, SQLite, OpenSSL, Android, iOS, etc.: the main developers of those projects are excellent programmers and it’s ludicrous to suggest otherwise.
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Yes but do they have typeclasses? Checkmate.
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hot take: typeclasses are the third best feature of Rust
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Where’s the circle for “willing to go through the effort of writing insecure code in Rust”
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Around me, because I almost shipped a non-bounds-checked SIMD vector to production a couple of weeks ago
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As we've said repeatedly, rust's goal is to empower a much bigger group of people to write machine-fast code without fear. That's not the same group of people who want a language to write microservices more quickly, but it's not C hackers either.
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In some sense, I personally am a perfect refutation of this guy. I could *never* learn to write safe C or C++, and rust empowered me to build a fast telemetry agent that powers my business and can be maintained by the spectrum of developers on my team.
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who made this dipshit graphic?
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Not gonna link it but you can find it on google if you really want :)
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