• khorovodoved@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Zig has other selling points, that are arguably more suitable for system programming. Rust’s obsession with safety (which is still not absolute even in rust) is not the only thing to consider.

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        UB is only one class of error though. I get nervous when people talk about re-writing battle hardened code which has been used - and reviewed by the community - for decades because there are going to be many subtleties and edge cases which are not immediately apparent for any developer attempting a re-implementation.

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          1 month ago

          Like sudo that has had zero days lurking for 10 years?

          I’m not advocating for reimplementing stuff for no good reason though.

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          You mean old code that has bugs that are no just being discovered. Battle hardened code and many eyeballs means nothing.