White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe
White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe
Leaders in Industry Support White House Call to Address Root Cause of Many of the Worst Cyber Attacks Read the full report here WASHINGTON – Today, the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surfa...
On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).
On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?
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let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things
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If I were writing code that had had to be maintained by another person or that would need to be depended on I would test it and be a lot more restrained. However, for personal projects and things where I’m just learning I find it kinda fun to be creative; when my creativity comes back to bite me I learn something.
An example of that even my mentor thought was kinda stupid for trying to save space this way was to not use a null pointer for the head of this linked list and to switch up protoAddEvent and subsequentAddEvent in this state sim I wrote a while back: https://github.com/jcuberdruid/stateSim/blob/main/stateSim.c
Oh, well of course that's fine. The government is talking about software that is used for important systems. No hacker will even know about your personal side project.