Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
by ilyt on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:26AM
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I mean if you want to use that comparison, C/C++ bridge would have random holes dropping the cars off the cliff below.
The issue is not "bridge is suboptimally designed" or "bridge will need some extra maintenance because something started to break".
The memory safety issues are "some cars randomly explode when passing that bridge" or "when driver breaks 6 seconds after entering the bridge, every other driver dies.
> Software is not terribly different from that.
It is MASSIVELY different, especially anywhere near anything security-related. Most buildings don't have a group of people with hammers trying to find a weak point that will never happen in any actual use conditions and then hit that weakpoint in every similar building built in every place of the world.
Please don't make horribly useless comparisons like that
The issue is not "bridge is suboptimally designed" or "bridge will need some extra maintenance because something started to break".
The memory safety issues are "some cars randomly explode when passing that bridge" or "when driver breaks 6 seconds after entering the bridge, every other driver dies.
> Software is not terribly different from that.
It is MASSIVELY different, especially anywhere near anything security-related. Most buildings don't have a group of people with hammers trying to find a weak point that will never happen in any actual use conditions and then hit that weakpoint in every similar building built in every place of the world.
Please don't make horribly useless comparisons like that