Agree. I’m an absolutely awesome software dev myself - and I know C by heart (being my favorite language after assembler). However, with age comes humility and the ability to recognize that I will write buggy code every now and then.
Better the language saves me when I can’t, in security critical situations.
Yeah, let’s see what Bagder has to say about this:
C is unsafe and always will be
The C programming language is not memory-safe. Among the 150 reported curl CVEs, we have determined that 61 of them are “C mistakes”. Problems that most likely would not have happened had we used a memory-safe language. 40.6% of the vulnerabilities in curl reported so far could have been avoided by using another language.
Rust is virtually the only memory-safe language that is starting to become viable.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/12/13/making-it-harder-to-do-wrong/
Citing scientific research is. Now, please post your gut feeling in response.
Isn’t that exactly the strawman the maintainer got tired of?
Do you believe C isn’t crap when it comes to security? Please explain why and I’ll happily debate you.
/fw hacker, reverse engineer
C is crap for anything where security matters. I’ll happily take that debate with anyone who thinks differently.
When you live in a sane country. I can’t imagine this applying anywhere in Europe for example.
Ubuntu user here. You can/could install .deb packages with the UI?
TIL
Tenacity is a thing.
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