HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 25 days ago'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartmanwww.zdnet.comexternal-linkmessage-square97linkfedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1168arrow-down1external-link'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartmanwww.zdnet.comHaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 25 days agomessage-square97linkfedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squareiopqlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoOpenSSL has proven itself to be security issue riddled, unmaintainable, bloated. It’s only lasted so long because people had the impression it was good, but it has proven itself unreliable
minus-squareNalivailinkfedilinkarrow-up1·20 days agoParaphrasing, there are only two types of important projects, security issue riddled, unmaintainable, bloated ones, and those that nobody uses.
minus-squareiopqlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·18 days agoThat doesn’t mean things can’t get better. Rust is a step in the right direction
minus-squareNalivailinkfedilinkarrow-up1·17 days agoHope so. But I will be convinced when it passes through the growing phase.
OpenSSL has proven itself to be security issue riddled, unmaintainable, bloated. It’s only lasted so long because people had the impression it was good, but it has proven itself unreliable
Paraphrasing, there are only two types of important projects, security issue riddled, unmaintainable, bloated ones, and those that nobody uses.
That doesn’t mean things can’t get better. Rust is a step in the right direction
Hope so. But I will be convinced when it passes through the growing phase.