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New 'Looney Tunables' Linux bug gives root on major distros
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No wonder everyone's crazy about Rust.
It's certainly why it is being used to build browsers and OSs now. Those are places were memory management problems are a huge problem. It probably doesn't make sense for every match 3 game to be made in Rust, but when errors cause massive breaches or death, it's a lot safer than C++, taking human faulability into account.
Question would be rather: why is something like C++ needed for such simple apps?
C++ seems to be in that weird in-between place of offering high level features to be reasonable productive, but still doesn't enforce/guarantee anything to make these features safe. I'd argue, very few programs need that. Either you're writing business stuff, then you want safety (Java, C#, rust), or you're writing embedded/low level stuff, then you want control (C, ASM).
The room for "productive, but not interested in safety" is basically just AAA games, I guess.
C is almost the old "steady" standard now it feels like. It's so flexible and the frameworks are already built..
...except that we also end up with cracks in our foundations like this exploit constantly being exposed as a result of all that C