On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).

On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

    • mox
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      114 months ago

      Segfaults aren’t particularly dangerous. They mean the problem was caught. The program usually just exits.

      Failing to segfault, thereby allowing a bad memory access, is where the real trouble happens.

    • @BatmanAoD
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      24 months ago

      No, if you try to index something out-of-bounds it will panic, which is not a memory-safety gap.