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kaba0
2y ago
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The only reasons those are reliable is that they have millions of hours of runtime, so that the easier bugs have all been fixed now.
If anything, they have become successful in spite of C.
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lanstin
2y ago
they are successful in spite of the memory unsafety of C because of the culture that the behavior of a failing system is a principle feature of the code, which is common thinking in C and easier to do when you don't have the crutch of exceptions.
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