Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
by ID_HOME on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:04PM
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I guess the correct solution is to use Java? Then we can bitch about run away garbage collection. How about Python then? It's really "fast". Or we can program it in snide remarks on forums, then we don't even have to write any working code to feel superior.
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Modula-2, Ada just to cite two possible examples.
Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
by vezzy-fnord on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:39PM
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This is the first time I've ever seen anyone (seriously?) recommend Ada for a project like this.
If Java is somehow a problem, you can simply make a language without stack smashing but also without GC. Nobody has done this so far because nobody gives a shit about the fact that every program we use is full of remote code vulns and will never be fixed.
You haven't been reading all the Rust release announcement threads, have you?
The thing is, those languages do exist since C does.
But the OSs created with them weren't as fancy as UNIX was at the time, or used hardware more costly than the PDP-11.
I wasn't even taking Rust into consideration. One could make a language the way I said with no problem in a small amount of time. I'm talking no novel stuff. Arrays bound checked at runtime. No attempt at code correctness even has to be offered, get rid of remote code execution vulns, and suddenly you watch HD videos without fearing for your life. It simply isn't done because nobody cares. It's not sexy enough. It's been 30 years now.