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

[Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole]

On 20/07/2024 11:33 AM, 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

It is not if, but when will D be banned from being used in critical or 
long standing applications.

I really need to get this across to everyone, that its going to happen a 
lot sooner than you may be thinking.

We either get the DFA I'm building, something like it or we're toast in 
commercial usage.