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 not sure - I've only just realised there are good enough alternatives now. I wrote Mapumental in C++ for no good reason.
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@dsilverstone anyway... anything promising in the embedded world where C dominates? algo-prog.info/ocaml_for_pic⦠is all I've been shown so far!
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@frabcus While things like OCaml for PIC might be good overall, you'll still need direct coding for cycle goals. Hardware is unforgiving.
Jan 19, 2015 Β· 10:36 AM UTC