Ten people so far have signed my promise to not use C/C++ on new projects! flourish.org/promise/
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@frabcus Sadly I do far too much in domains where anything other than C simply isn't happening. Also I like C :-(
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@dsilverstone @frabcus I'm not sure why anybody would ever promise such a thing.
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@rjek @dsilverstone security. Ability to write arbitrary memory is fundamentally insecure.
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Replying to @frabcus
@frabcus You're making the false assumption that your interpreter is safe. Ultimately there will be a risk wherever you need to run the CPU

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Replying to @dsilverstone
@dsilverstone no, I'm saying the interpreter (compiler in case of Go/Rust) is a minimal surface of attack for that, compared to whole app