Memory safety in programming languages is honestly table-stakes at this point.
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Memory safety in programming languages is honestly table-stakes at this point. If a new (high-level) programming language can't even meet that low a bar, it has no business being used in production imo.
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Memory safety in programming languages is honestly table-stakes at this point. If a new (high-level) programming language can't even meet that low a bar, it has no business being used in production imo.
Like: if someone wants to build a language called "oops all pointers" I think that's cool and they should do it. Like, get nutty with it.
But writing a web server in it that brokers access to private data feels akin to vocational malpractice. Part of the blame, of course, lies with the person choosing to do that. But if all of the language's examples are of networked applications, I think they are responsible too.
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Like: if someone wants to build a language called "oops all pointers" I think that's cool and they should do it. Like, get nutty with it.
But writing a web server in it that brokers access to private data feels akin to vocational malpractice. Part of the blame, of course, lies with the person choosing to do that. But if all of the language's examples are of networked applications, I think they are responsible too.
Almost non-intuitively: I do love memory unsafe languages as well, and I believe researching these and developing these is immensely valuable!
Just not… entire high-level languages. Assembly and Intermediate Representations are all often not memory-safe. And a lot of languages also have memory-unsafe subsets of languages that need good semantics (e.g. unsafe Rust, Python FFI, etc.)
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Almost non-intuitively: I do love memory unsafe languages as well, and I believe researching these and developing these is immensely valuable!
Just not… entire high-level languages. Assembly and Intermediate Representations are all often not memory-safe. And a lot of languages also have memory-unsafe subsets of languages that need good semantics (e.g. unsafe Rust, Python FFI, etc.)
I don't think I'm saying anything particularly new here. But sometimes I just feel the urge to say this out loud. Because I do think it's important.
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@stefano Sure.
I was just lamenting on myself, I was almost going to get that fun contract with clear agreements, aced the interviews and then lost of signal, later I learned they closed the role.I wonder if we shouldn't at least charge for this, cause it's "work" and lack of respect at the same time.
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@omar it's not always that way for me, too. This week I had to do lots of things I dislike. But, luckily, not today
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@stefano Don't throw curse on yourself.
You are the Ying, i'm the Yang, I get only shitty assignment despite having been hired or contracted for the "fun" part but i'm the only one willing to do the hard/grunt work.
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Not at all, I thought you were a native speaker. I replied with a sentence that's a bit complicated for my knowledge of English and I made some irony on my attempt to write a sentence above my possibilities.
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I still can’t wrap my head around how it’s possible that they pay me to have fun...
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@morrolinux io, a questo prezzo li ho messi tutti nel carrello e pian piano li seguo ma c'è un piccolo dettaglio, che lo stipendio mi arriva martedi😅 non si puè avere una proroga?
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