Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o...
by marssaxman on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @05:04PM
(#11537747)
This is exactly what they said about Java in the late '90s and early 2000s, but I have never had any trouble avoiding (non-server) software written in Java, and I doubt I'll have any trouble avoiding non-web software written with web technologies, either.
Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o...
by z3t4 on Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:44AM
(#11540679)
Sometimes you have to do a lot of detective work to know what technology was used to make the software. Web-tech doesn't ask you to "install Java", for example when running the "web app" with Electron or nw.js
Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o...
by marssaxman on Thursday April 21, 2016 @01:35PM
(#11543877)
If it ever gets good enough that I can't immediately tell when using it, I'll probably have to change my opinion.
Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o...
by z3t4 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:34AM
(#11534655)
When developing in a higher level language like JavaScript you are less prone to buffer overflow code execution vulnerabilities, witch seems to be the most common security hole.
Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o...
by PeCaN on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:01PM
(#11535375)
That's a non-point. There's nothing intrinsic about higher level language that prevents security holes. There are plenty of low-level languages that are immune to buffer overflows—Ada, Rust, D† (to an extent), Oberon†, Cyclone....
D and Ada have real and important software written in them, Rust has hype, Oberon is still actively developed, Cyclone influenced new languages (particularly Rust).
† Garbage collected by default
The web is ubiquitous. Everyone knows it, and so it's much easier to scratch whatever itch you have in a tech you know than a scary one (C!) that you don't; building for situations you understand (your fast piece of expensive apple tech connected to your fast internet) than ones you don't.