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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by _dcwr on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:16PM (#14757499)
The garbage I was referring to was in the comments "below". Namely: "Some people may reasonably, with some extreme care and diligence, maybe try to claim they can write safe and UB-free C code. If stars align properly" and "writing C++ code longer than a few lines without UB is humanly impossible", not the article, I quoted the latter shorter one in my original message.

I consider Java browser applets unsafe trash and I'd never run one I don't absolutely trust. This person has similar (or even worse) opinion of C and C++ languages but runs tons of software in them with seemingly no problems since his idiotic comment made it in here and arrived to me intact despite all the C and C++ software on the way from him to HN to me.

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Re:Why you should, actually, rewrite some of it in Rust by Jweb_Guru on Friday July 14, 2017 @03:06AM (#14768099)
Did you read the linked article about UB? The odds that a random C++ program trips up some of that UB are actually pretty high, and all of the programs you've mentioned do have UB (Linus has infamously gotten angry about GCC starting to exploit it). It's just a question of whether a compiler (or hacker) is bothering to exploit it yet.
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