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Re:Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet by jandrese on Friday October 09, 2020 @03:55PM (#24733762)
When I find a project that is a handful of .c files and a Makefile they almost always compile and run. Sometimes with warnings because the features used in the code are depreciated but usually without too much fanfare.
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Re:Memory safe ‘curl’ for a more secure internet by dpc_pw on Friday October 09, 2020 @04:23PM (#24734044)
> they almost always compile and run

Same in Rust. Actually, it's quite better than in C. The only time Rust projects fail to compile is when they pull in some C library and something there (like configure.ac) messed up. :D

And if this C project does anything interesting it pulls in bunch of C libraries that came precompiled with your OS, and might be stale and contain unpatched security vulns.

C/C++ developers pointing at other languages about dependency hell is a curiosity.

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