alt Hacker NewsI don't understand this passion for turning C into what it's not...
Just don't use C for sending astronauts in space. Simple.
C wasn't designed to be safe, it was designed so you don't have to write in assembly.
Just a quick look through this and it just shows one thing: someone else's walled garden of hell.
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fransje26 • today at 1:19 PM
> Just don't use C for sending astronauts in space. Simple.
Last time I checked, even SpaceX uses C to send astronauts to space...
pjmlp • today at 1:09 PM
Some C devs will make all kinds of crazy efforts only not to use C++.
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capitol_ • today at 2:44 PM
I agree, if people just had refrained from building things in c/c++ that operated on data from across a security boundary we wouldn't be in this mess.
> Just don't use C for sending astronauts in space
But do use C to control nuclear reactors https://list.cea.fr/en/page/frama-c/
It's a lot easier to catch errors of omission in C than it is to catch unintended implicit behavior in C++.