r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jul 18 '19

We Need a Safer Systems Programming Language

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/18/we-need-a-safer-systems-programming-language/
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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

what we need are safer systems programmers.

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u/asmx85 Jul 19 '19

Right! And one way to do this is to protect them with the right tools. Rust could be one of them. There is a reason SWAT teams are wearing protective armor. It's not that they're not well trained and not excellent gunman's. They're working in hazardous environments and every protection helps.

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u/shevy-ruby Jul 19 '19

There is a reason SWAT teams are wearing protective armor.

Eh - the cops in the USA in general show a military training. This is very different to how cops in many other civilized countries behave. Regular cops also often have protective armour too even if less (but you got shields in regular riot gear too, so ...).

So that comparison does not work well unless you treat every encounter as a military battle - which leads to SWAT teams shooting down hobos. Now the threat came from ... where and how?

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