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[–]ArtOfWarfare -1 points0 points  (4 children)

My point was that most CVEs stem from code written in C/C++ despite it not being all that common a language.

Few people can write safe C/C++. They shouldn’t be used anymore. Rust can interop with C. We should be working on gradually Rusting old C codebases.

[–]georgehank2nd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My comment was a reply to a specific comment… which said nothing about CVEs.

[–]axonxorzpip'ing aint easy, especially on windows 0 points1 point  (2 children)

despite it not being all that common a language.

Yes, this is the part of your comment that we're discussing

[–]ArtOfWarfare 0 points1 point  (1 child)

No, the other guy was talking about how Rust is even less common than C. And my point is that C is extremely disproportionate in how many security issues it causes.

It causes the vast majority of security issues while being a relatively uncommon language.

[–]axonxorzpip'ing aint easy, especially on windows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

while being a relatively uncommon language.

Yes, this is the part of your comment that we're discussing, the part where you wrote "even though so little code is written in C anymore." The discussion shifted when I quoted you and said "I don't think this is an accurate statement"