Seriously, Heartbleed was entirely caused by pointers being dangerous. This is not hard - we should get rid of general purpose pointers.
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@frabcus The danger in languages like C come from their power. If you remove the danger you remove the power. Sometimes power is needed.
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@dsilverstone @frabcus also, C *lacks* power in critical ways (builtin string support is terrible in almost every way)
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@eyebrowsofpower @frabcus I don't consider the wealth of string-related libraries a problem. Builtins are not the be-all-and-end-all.
Jan 19, 2015 ยท 11:41 AM UTC


