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Agree. I’m an absolutely awesome software dev myself - and I know C by heart (being my favorite language after assembler). However, with age comes humility and the ability to recognize that I will write buggy code every now and then.

Better the language saves me when I can’t, in security critical situations.

Yeah, let’s see what Bagder has to say about this:

C is unsafe and always will be

The C programming language is not memory-safe. Among the 150 reported curl CVEs, we have determined that 61 of them are “C mistakes”. Problems that most likely would not have happened had we used a memory-safe language. 40.6% of the vulnerabilities in curl reported so far could have been avoided by using another language.

Rust is virtually the only memory-safe language that is starting to become viable.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/12/13/making-it-harder-to-do-wrong/

Citing scientific research is. Now, please post your gut feeling in response.

Figure 2: https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11416-021-00379-x

Isn’t that exactly the strawman the maintainer got tired of?

Do you believe C isn’t crap when it comes to security? Please explain why and I’ll happily debate you.

/fw hacker, reverse engineer

C is crap for anything where security matters. I’ll happily take that debate with anyone who thinks differently.

Ubuntu user here. You can/could install .deb packages with the UI?

TIL

Tenacity is a thing.

https://tenacityaudio.org/