On Saturday, 6 May 2017 at 06:26:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Walter Bright: I firmly believe that memory safety is gonna be
an absolute requirement moving forward, very soon, for
programming language selection.
Scott Meyers: For, for what kinds of applications?
Walter: Anything that goes on the internet.
Scott: Uh, let me just, sort of as background, given the
remaining popularity of C, unbelievable popularity of C, which
is far from a memory-safe language, do you think that that...
I'm having trouble reconciling the ongoing popularity of C with
the claim that you're making that this is going to be an
absolute requirement for programming languages going forward.
Walter: I believe memory safety will kill C.
Scott: ... Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gfwk-zRwmk#t=8h35m18s
The whole exchange starts with a question at the 8h:33m mark
and goes on for about 13 mins, worth listening to.
I agree with Walter that safety will be big going forward,
should have been big already.
Hm, Sociomantic removes the live captures the next day?
One request: Chop the panel discussion into one clip per
question/topic, please. Alternatively, provide some means to
easily jump to the start of each question.
