I've been calling this out for forever now and have been repeatedly told that actually, competent devs with C are fine and the C software we use has been battle tested so it's largely secure.

And now we are seeing that was all untrue.

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cristoperb 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

now it's even more battle tested!

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awesome_dude 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Let's rewrite everything - said every 15 minutes by every new developer with a new toy.

How about being constructive instead - old bug in old code is no surprise, no matter the language/technology.

	▲	Gigachad 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This was hardly a convincing argument before the current CVE explosion. By now C needs to be dead and buried for network accessible code.
	▲	fartfeatures 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Someone needs to tell DARPA: https://www.darpa.mil/research/programs/translating-all-c-to...