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crimsonpoodle Feb 26, 2024

White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe

White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe - Pawb.Social

On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift). On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

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xmunk Feb 26, 2024

C++ can have excellent performance without ever using a single pointer and avoiding unsafe functions like gets() - this isn’t necessarily a judgment on language - it’s a judgement on bad programming habits.

Pointers fucking suck, in a modern C++ codebase everything should be pass by value or const/mutable ref. To my preference I’d rather drop mutable refs to force everything to be more functional but whatever.

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OsrsNeedsF2P Feb 26, 2024

I mean that’s just the problem with C++. There’s 17 different ways to do things, 2 are always wrong, 14 are contextual, and 1 is reserved for super special cases

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HornyOnMain

And the one you choose is always the one that's weak to the specific vulnerability you didn't think of!