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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens - 07/01/2024 (xeiaso.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A shitpost about languages that generate CVEs

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Right, those devs with 20+ years C experience don't know shit about the language and are just lazy. They don't want to catch up with the times and write safe C. It's me, the dude with 5 years of university experience who will set it straight. Look at my hello world program, not a single line of vulnerable code.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is not completely wrong, though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, for sure. Human error is involved in C and inertia too. New coding practices and libraries aren't used, tests aren't written, code quality sucks (variable names in C are notoriously cryptic), there's little documentation, many things are rewritten (seems like everybody has rewritten memory allocation at least once), one's casual void * is another's absolute nono, and so on.

C just makes it really easy to make mistakes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It has nothing to do with knowing the language and everything to do with what's outside of the language. C hasn't resembled CPUs for decades and can't be reasonably retrofitted for safety.