70 sats \ 3 replies \ @petertodd 14 Jan \ on: Remote code execution vulnerability in Redis (CVE-2023-41056) security
Looks like Redis is written in C, so no surprise there...
C is an obsolete language. Stop writing new projects in it, unless you have a very good reason (eg a microcontroller with only C support). Use Rust instead.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @gd 14 Jan
Rust really is cool. Coming from a Go eng
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @geeknik 14 Jan
Rust isn’t perfect either.
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1100 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 14 Jan
Who said anything about perfect?
It's still far better than C in terms of safety. Similar to how C was far better than assembly (I've done a lot of assembly programming for microcontrollers). And assembly was far better than raw machine code.
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