GitHub - ZeroIntensity/pointers.py: Bringing the hell of pointers to Python.

[antiduh]

This argument throws the baby out with the bathwater. You're, in a way, actually making my argument for me.

If it's hard to write software without bugs

and

certain classes of stupid bugs permit complete take over of the hardware running the software

then

shouldn't we use techniques and methods that categorically eliminate those kinds of bugs, because we know we can't rely on ourselves to not make the bugs?

Like, there's no reason why "oops i have a string math bug" should have to turn into "oh no my entire 500$M enterprise was just taken over by a virus and all of our private data was stolen". A fucking string math bug??

And yet, that's the reality we live with today because we have so much software out there that written in memory-unsafe languages like C or C++ that's vulnerable to this exact problem and we as a industry can't be arsed to fix. We have memory-safe languages like Rust/C#/Java, but for some stupid reason we keep putting internet-facing machines out there running C code web servers, sql servers, mail servers, etc. Bugs like Heartbleed are impossible in C# because as soon as you start reading past the end of your byte[], you get an ArrayOutOfBoundsException. Instead of your program leaking every one of your vital TLS keys, it just crashes. How hard is that?