Re:I'm working on open source full time
by nextos on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @02:21PM
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Funding bodies should consider spending money on boring maintenance and reimplementation of critical infrastructure in languages safer than C (e.g. Rust, but there are other interesting alternatives). We would avoid many future fiascos.
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Re:I'm working on open source full time
by ipaddr on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @08:36PM
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Reimplementation in rust sounds like you are trying to take much needs critical infrastrcture money and spend it on a fun project with small real world benefits.
Boring things like documentation and security patches would go further.
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by Jweb_Guru on Sunday October 03, 2021 @12:41AM
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Google disagrees. They might know something you don't.
Re:I'm working on open source full time
by lelanthran on Thursday September 30, 2021 @07:03AM
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> Funding bodies should consider spending money on boring maintenance and reimplementation of critical infrastructure in languages safer than C (e.g. Rust, but there are other interesting alternatives).
And here's where it all breaks down - the most vocal proponents of how the money should be used would be those who want to see a particular tech stack survive/grow.
The way it is right now, being far from ideal, is better than having the loudest activists picking the winners.