Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes
by lhgaghl on Friday January 10, 2014 @07:38PM
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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.
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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.