Ten people so far have signed my promise to not use C/C++ on new projects! flourish.org/promise/
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@frabcus Encouraging the use of something other than C where something else is appropriate is a good thing, but never say never.
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@dsilverstone that's the same argument that makes me never get married. I think it's a flawed one! i.e. I can break the promise in extremes
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@dsilverstone but yeah, my main goal is to make people think. Most programmers most of the time shouldn't be using C/C++.
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@dsilverstone and good programmers should be working on higher level languages and concepts which reduce security problems
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@frabcus I fear that before you have "safe" languages you need a "safe" computing hardware platform, and that's somewhat harder to achieve.

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@dsilverstone oh there's lots of work to do at every layer, absolutely!
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@frabcus My point is that a clickbaity "promise" to "never" use C/C++ isn't helpful beyond stirring up a few people who already know better.
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@dsilverstone just thinking... anything I can read on what a "safe" computing hardware platform would mean?
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@frabcus Sadly I don't know of any material on that sort of thing because thus-far hardware is 'unsafe' :-( (AFAIK)
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