Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by Ar-Curunir on Friday August 24, 2018 @04:06PM
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Some languages are unfit for certain purposes. For example, Python is not meant for low-level programming, and C is not meant for writing secure, mission-critical applications.
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Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by huhtenberg on Friday August 24, 2018 @05:39PM
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Furthermore, some languages tend to attract less skilled programmers, in part due to having lower barrier of entry and requiring less domain knowledge for being able to crank out something functional, quickly.
Re:Former Tesla Firmware Engineer Discusses the System
by planteen on Monday August 27, 2018 @06:32PM
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> C is not meant for writing secure, mission-critical applications
What OS kernels are actually used that are written in anything other than C? Plenty of them (INTEGRITY, VxWorks, QNX) written in C are used in secure, mission-critical applications.