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Re:Goodbye C++, Hello C by christophilus on Saturday June 26, 2021 @06:54AM (#27640840)
I think that if we focused on building small, simple programs that do one thing well and compose, C would be OK. It’s when we build out behemoths that you really have a hard time reasoning about your code. At that point, vulnerabilities are almost guaranteed. This is true in any language, but more so in unsafe ones.

Maybe the suckless guys are on to something.

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Re:Goodbye C++, Hello C by kaba0 on Saturday June 26, 2021 @11:27AM (#27642696)
The complexity that must arise (otherwise the problem we are looking at is not interesting enough) will happen either way. Composing small tools will give you an ugly as hell glue code over them — just imagine a modern browser. Would it really be better to do curl and interpretJS and buildDOM and all these things? Just imagine writing the glue code for that in what, bash?

We pretty much have exactly that, but better with programming languages composing libs, functions and other abstractions. That’s exactly the same thing but at a different (better) level.

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