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

[Timon Gehr]

On 7/26/24 10:57, aberba wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 20:18:27 UTC, Serg Gini wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 July 2024 at 12:24:27 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>>
>>> Nvidia manager, curious about what programming language we are using 
>>> in DeepGlance as I claimed we care for memory safety.
>>
>> I bet core tech (eye tracking and object detection) is C++ code :)
> 
> I honestly don't get why D after 20yrs

`@safe` existed before Rust was even a thing. It has just gained a bit 
in importance.

> is being dragged (by a vocal 
> minority) to become like rust. Shouldn't they be using rust already?

I am sure the people you are referring to, to the point they even exist, 
are already using Rust.

> A lot of very important new code is still being written in C++ 
> (irrespective of its flaws). It's not like you can't write strict safe 
> code in D either. Devs aren't stupid, it doesn't matter if strict is 
> turned on by default or not at this point. They know what to do.

No, in practice they build vulnerable systems. Devs do not know what 
they are doing, otherwise they would not be doing it like that.