Re:OpenSSL 3.0.7 Published
by umanwizard on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @12:46PM
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> c is easily my favorite programming language
That's not really relevant to the discussion of whether it's the proper language to be used for something like OpenSSL.
> it just works really damn well
As far as I can tell, all mainstream programming languages "work well", so it's not clear what you mean.
> produces very small binaries
True but not very important IMO
> it's easy to write terrible code in any programming language
Sure. But it's not easy to write this particular flavor of terrible code -- buffer overflows -- in any commonly-used language other than C and its derivatives.
That's not really relevant to the discussion of whether it's the proper language to be used for something like OpenSSL.
> it just works really damn well
As far as I can tell, all mainstream programming languages "work well", so it's not clear what you mean.
> produces very small binaries
True but not very important IMO
> it's easy to write terrible code in any programming language
Sure. But it's not easy to write this particular flavor of terrible code -- buffer overflows -- in any commonly-used language other than C and its derivatives.