Re:Getting Past C
by lacampbell on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @05:47PM
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Rust (which I have thus far only tinkered with) looks pretty appealing to me, though. Do you suggest using C instead of Rust? If so, why?
I'd probably suggest a higher level language if you can get away with it (portability, performance, etc), but I am not really advocating for using one language over another here.. What I am advocating is writing a thin layer of abstraction to avoid buffer overflows in the already extant code base. I suspect it would be a better choice in terms of cost/benefit than re-writing the code.
I'd probably suggest a higher level language if you can get away with it (portability, performance, etc), but I am not really advocating for using one language over another here.. What I am advocating is writing a thin layer of abstraction to avoid buffer overflows in the already extant code base. I suspect it would be a better choice in terms of cost/benefit than re-writing the code.