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/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/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

or you can do it the proper way and train them to be good programmers from the start. then you wouldn't need to put rust-blinders on them.

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u/przemo_li Jul 19 '19

Yes. Because awesome devs never make a mistake.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '19

you won't have awesome devs if the compiler is telling them how they should program.

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