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When I found out even Rust needed the clib, it was like seeing an iron-clad fortress only to look closer and see it was being held up by sticks, ducktape, and prayers. (github.com)

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Every programming problem I have, when I track it down to it's source, seems to originate with C/C++. It wasn't till a few years ago that I realized how seriously everything I do somehow, some way, has C/C++ as a foundation. Basically every zero-day exploit in my cyber security class is because of something stupid in C/C++. And it goes well beyond security, the more I dive into C++ the more terrible stuff I find. When I found out even Rust needed the clib, it was like seeing an iron-clad fortress only to look closer and see it was being held up by sticks, ducktape, and prayers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank god assembly is memory safe!!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

It is indeed when paired with an optimizing assembler, a sophisticated static analysis tool in its own right. And just like Rust, you have greybeards hating on such provided safety because "meh it's not close to the hardware anymore", like that old man Mel.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/2347/

This, except the random project in Nebraska is the most popular language written by all of the biggest corporations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

/mj this post was an experiment to see If I should start posting from my personal jerk archive here. But exactly as I expected and anticipated given the visibility in public feeds, this community has decent traffic, but none of the culture, or any familiarity whatsoever with the meta-ironic jerking style of the OG community. The lack of a separate meta sub/community is also not helpful since it forces users to /mj inline. But that separate community would have been public too, possibly compounding the problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

For now the community is its own thing, which is interesting in its own right. Maybe once we get more than 2 regular posters it might go unpublic