Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13
by ilyt on Friday December 02, 2022 @06:45AM
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>> This is the exact equivalent of physicians continuing to use unsafe medical procedures
> Plenty of platforms don't support rust. Just because you've improved knee surgery, doesn't mean it works on an elbow... yet. And sometimes you still gotta perform surgery on elbows.
That's a non-argument, obviously if it isn't even applicable it's not a discussion. Also most of what people code on does support Rust
>> if the programmer is "smart enough".
>Can't defend this, but tbh I've never heard it.
Programmer is never smart enough. Decades of bugs showed that
> Plenty of platforms don't support rust. Just because you've improved knee surgery, doesn't mean it works on an elbow... yet. And sometimes you still gotta perform surgery on elbows.
That's a non-argument, obviously if it isn't even applicable it's not a discussion. Also most of what people code on does support Rust
>> if the programmer is "smart enough".
>Can't defend this, but tbh I've never heard it.
Programmer is never smart enough. Decades of bugs showed that