[Not really OT] Crowdstrike Analysis: It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.

[Hoet]

On Friday, 19 July 2024 at 23:33:44 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 10:49:23PM +0000, mw via Digitalmars-d 
> wrote:
>> https://twitter.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/1814376668095754753?t=fAIwQeQpf0HJ9uh-gxqE9Q&s=19
>> 
>> Crowdstrike Analysis:
>> 
>> It was a NULL pointer from the memory unsafe C++ language.
>> 
>> Since I am a professional C++ programmer, let me decode this 
>> stack trace dump for you.
> [...]
>
> It's 2024, and a NULL pointer brought down half the world's 
> servers.
>
> Just gives you *so* much confidence in technology. :-D
>
> //
>
> In other news, this is yet another nail in the coffin of 
> memory-unsafe languages. We're slowly, but surely inching 
> towards the day when the likes of C and C++ will finally be 
> relegated to the dustbin of history...
>
>
> T

C is going to be around long after both you and I are gone. 
Languages can affect how thew ratio f new code is written and in 
which fields but by the very same token, the entire planet works 
quite so well on a day to day basis , powered by precisely C.. 
the fact Windows is used however, is a joke, and has been since  
the last millenium but ah well. THAT one I believe can and will 
change before you and I are gone, however.,