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this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2025
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This is my biggest gripe with that nonsense. If you make it hard to do something well, you won't end up with an elite series of uber-coders because there aren't enough of those people to do all the programming that people want to be done. Instead you'll see that much more software engineering done really goddamned badly and despite appearances at the time it turns out there is a maximum amount of shitty software the world can endure.
What's great is even the very best "just use valgrind lol, lmao" folks make these errors all the time. It's basically impossible to write correct C code generally
the best we can do is verify subsets of code (c.f. Rust's
unsafe
keyword). The memory-safety CVEs in EXT3/4 are proof of this, IMO, as if there were anyone able to write correct C code today, it would be Ted Ts'o.