1/ Let's say we added up all the money spent globally on patch management — even for just the major software manufactures.
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2/ I feel like if just a small portion of that money were instead spent on higher-quality software, it'd be FAR more economically efficient.
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: or slower-but-safer languages/runtimes. We pay the price eventually, might as well take the hit up front.
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Replying to @slightlylate
exactly. I wonder how much more we’re paying ‘later’ than we otherwise might.
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: it's the sort of thing that in other industries is sorted out by regulation and industry standards...yet here we are writing C++
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there were some *incredible* failures trying to abandon C/C++. Java/C# couldn't deliver, mostly due to GC.
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: yeah, the new approaches are working better: Rust, NaCL, etc.
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Replying to @slightlylate @jeremiahg
maybe. I worry they're too fine grained and don't have big wins under their belt yet.
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: NaCL now hosts the entire Android runtime on CrOS. Not perfect, but working well for memory protection.
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NaCl doesn't do fine grained memory protection, unless my recollection is way off (might be, been a while)
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