Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is open source

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.

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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

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Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o... by woodruffw on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:49AM (#11534783)

These days, it seems like XSS/CSRF are just as common.

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Re:Monod, our secure and offline-first Markdown editor, is o... by wtetzner on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:52AM (#11535309)

There are plenty of options beyond C/C++ and JavaScript.

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