Re:The Insecurity Industry
by azakai on Monday July 26, 2021 @09:51PM
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You're right that Go has those flaws, and it would be nicer if they didn't exist. However, in practice Go is still far, far safer than C and C++. Use after free etc. are far easier to exploit than Go's races.
If you can write in 100% safe Rust, Swift, C#, Java, etc. - and not use any of the unsafe escape hatches they provide at all - that would be best. But using some small amount of unsafety in any of those languages, or using Go, would still be a huge improvement over the typical C or C++ codebase.
If you can write in 100% safe Rust, Swift, C#, Java, etc. - and not use any of the unsafe escape hatches they provide at all - that would be best. But using some small amount of unsafety in any of those languages, or using Go, would still be a huge improvement over the typical C or C++ codebase.