Re:Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig'
by spacemanmatt on Sunday February 28, 2021 @07:50AM
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He railed against the breathless descriptions not the languages themselves. I still agree with his put-up-or-shut-up position, and with throwing cold water on hype. My trade is engineering, and while I like whimsy as much as most humans, I will fight it when precision is critical.
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"He railed against the breathless descriptions not the languages themselves."
He said Rust obviously had nothing and that proper privsep was exceedingly rare in languages other than C.
Re:Theo de Raadt 'Re: new: lang/zig'
by spacemanmatt on Sunday February 28, 2021 @08:38AM
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Is he wrong?
About "Rust has nothing"? That wouldn't be a productive conversation.
On privsep being rare outside of C? What's the measure? I suspect privilege separation is present or not more based on the type of software, not the language used. And I'm sure you can find bad/good examples in software written in C, Go, Rust, Zig, etc.