C++ programmers are the 2nd Amendment folk of the IT industry

«Bruh it's not true that this marvelous piece of language is "insecure", it's just a skill issue if 6,855 flights all over the world get canceled because someone dereferenced the wrong pointer»

Using a memory safe language infringes my constitutional rights /s

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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

Here is a wrinkle though. It doesn't matter as long as companies all over the world are still using 50 year old software it doesn't matter if whatever the coding language fad of the day is.

Heck a few years back I worked for the second largest cable company in Canada and their customer database was from 1976 running on a virtual machine on windows.

Elessar · 31-35, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow It would matter to them because a disaster like CrowdStrike's literally ends up costing them billions (and reputation/trust)

Problem is, as always, "it won't happen to us", or "a rewrite would hurt this trimester's performance"

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

@Elessar Also both in the public sector and private the mentality is what is in the budget for this quarter. Whether it will cost more a year later or 5 is not even part of the discussion.

I would argue the bigger problem with the CrowdStrike fiasco is that one company has so much power all it takes to take down the world is them hiring one incompetent employee.

1 company should lever be in a position to brick 8 million computers globally in the first place.