C and memory safety comments by me

[Joakim]

On Thursday, 18 May 2017 at 17:42:39 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 May 2017 at 17:25:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/18/2017 10:08 AM, David Gileadi wrote:
>>> On 5/18/17 10:00 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/6b4xrc/walter_bright_believes_memory_safety_will_kill_c/dhkxhef/
>>>
>>>
>>> Oddly enough that link took me to a comment thread about Rust 
>>> CFFI, with no
>>> comments by you in it. Perhaps you meant the link to not 
>>> include the dhkxhef/ at
>>> the end?
>>
>> Yes, sorry about that. Corrected link:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/6b4xrc/walter_bright_believes_memory_safety_will_kill_c/
>
> Looks like it's being discussed on r/rust too:
>
> https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6bpg90/systems_programming_panel_at_dconf2017_walter/
>
> I think you got lucky that WannaCry hit soon after DConf, 
> people are ready to talk about this now and your comments are 
> spurring that discussion.

Looks like the Rust guys are publicizing memory safety more:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3mgxb/the-internet-has-a-huge-cc-problem-and-developers-dont-want-to-deal-with-it