Re:The Insecurity Industry
by platinumrad on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @01:46AM
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You have an awfully rosy view of how regulation of programming languages would play out. What will happen (and this is already de facto the case in many "safety-critical" industries) is that Rust is banned and everyone is forced to write straightjacketed C89 and C++03. There's already a congressman on the record complaining about a "native Nigerian" committing code to Rust.
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Re:The Insecurity Industry
by littlestymaar on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @02:17AM
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> There's already a congressman on the record complaining about a "native Nigerian" committing code to Rust.
Wow. It comes from the Libra hearing I guess? By any chance, do you have an link to the exact quote?
Edit: as hsod answered below (I don't really get why this answer was flagged) the congressman isn't really “complaining” and it's not about a Nigerian committing to Rust, but to Libra itself.
It’s around 30 seconds of this clip https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4808083/user-clip-rust-langua...
“I went ahead and did a GitHub search on who’s actually leading the development on the Libra core side and it looks like, I think it’s gonna be international because it looks like a native Nigerian that’s actually building the actual Libra core in front of the code development of Libra core” - congressman Denver Riggleman (R-VA)
He lost his seat in 2020
Re:The Insecurity Industry
by roflc0ptic on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @08:45AM
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It's an unsettling combination of literacy and illiteracy there.