[gentoo-user] Re: secure programing language?

On 2018-05-08 21:41, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > So are there currently any languages (currently in use/supported) > > designed to avoid the problems with C and other languages? > I think Go and Rust would fit the bill. Ocaml, and (if you're married to C-like syntax) its new skin Reason,

Re: [gentoo-user] vulkan development...

I believe the vulkan sdk provides that On Tue, May 8, 2018, 7:34 PM Alan Grimes wrote: > After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got > inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from > github and tried to build it. It couldn't

[gentoo-user] vulkan development...

After playing Rise of The Tombraider using Vulkan on Gentoo I got inspired to try to poke with some source code. I downloaded vkQuake from github and tried to build it. It couldn't find ... Uh, where are the headers? What package are they in? =( -- Please report bounces from this address to

Re: [gentoo-user] secure programing language?

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 5:41 PM Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:33 PM wrote: > > > > So are there currently any languages (currently in use/supported) designed to avoid the problems with C and other languages? > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] secure programing language?

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:33 PM wrote: > > So are there currently any languages (currently in use/supported) designed to avoid the problems with C and other languages? > > Something with strong types and provisions for automatic input validation beyond typing,

[gentoo-user] secure programing language?

So are there currently any languages (currently in use/supported)  designed to avoid the problems with C and other languages?  Something with strong types and provisions for automatic input validation beyond typing, i.e. range limitation? Something that compiles, something that doesn't self

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre-NG

On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 4:19 AM Martin Vaeth wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Higher-level languages will probably become nearly immune to Spectre just > > as most are nearly immune to buffer overflows. > Quite the opposite: Higher-level languages *always*

Re: [gentoo-user] apache mod_wsgi radicale and passing in an environment variable

On Tuesday, 8 May 2018 00:00:04 BST Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Hi all, > > how does one set an environment variable for Apache mod_wsgi on gentoo? > > I am using the radicale wsgi module and it requires the config file to > be passed in from the environment to be set in the environment. The >

[gentoo-user] Re: Spectre-NG

Rich Freeman wrote: > > Higher-level languages will probably become nearly immune to Spectre just > as most are nearly immune to buffer overflows. Quite the opposite: Higher-level languages *always* do some checks for array-length etc, and it is the _checks_ which are