Re:Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
by eru on Sunday July 21, 2024 @07:35AM
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> Approximately 100% of CVEs, crashes, bugs, slowdowns, and pain points of computing have to do with various forms of deserialising binary data back into machine-readable data structures. All because a) human programmers forget to account for edge cases, and b) imperative programming languages allow us to do so.
I wouldn't blame imperative programming.
Eg Rust is imperative, and pretty good at telling you off when you forgot a case in your switch.
By contrast the variant of Scheme I used twenty years ago was functional, but didn't have checks for covering all cases. (And Haskell's ghc didn't have that checked turned on by default a few years ago. Not sure if they changed that.)
I wouldn't blame imperative programming.
Eg Rust is imperative, and pretty good at telling you off when you forgot a case in your switch.
By contrast the variant of Scheme I used twenty years ago was functional, but didn't have checks for covering all cases. (And Haskell's ghc didn't have that checked turned on by default a few years ago. Not sure if they changed that.)