On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 at 20:41:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/17/2017 3:21 AM, Joakim wrote:
Hmm, this talk has become the most-viewed from this DConf, by
far beating
Scott's keynote. Wonder how, as this seems to be the only
link to it, hasn't
been posted on reddit/HN. I guess people like panels, the
process panel last
year is one of the most viewed videos also.
Heh, someone just posted it to HN:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dconf2017%20walter%20safety
I received -2 net votes on Hackernews for suggesting that the
takeaway from the WannaCry fiasco for developers should be to
use memory safe languages.
Maybe the larger community isn't punished enough yet.
HN votes are an isolated case, but I'm not sure how much wider
recognition there is that memory safety is a big part of the
problem and that there exist viable languages that offer a way
out, as Andrei said in the panel. There is a long way to go in
publicizing these new languages that offer better solutions.
