Well, one of the most widely used that allows to do low-level stuff. The most widely used one is by far JavaScript but good luck making an OS or a device driver with it
Oh gawd. That would be so horrible! Is there a project o compile JavaScript to bytecode? With like LLVM? There must be, but I haven’t heard of it. I shouldn’t even say anything because I will be better off pretending it doesn’t exist.
The “C is bad trope” is getting way too old. I’m surprised the author didn’t plug Rust.
Maybe because it’s one of the most widely used languages in the world…
Well, one of the most widely used that allows to do low-level stuff. The most widely used one is by far JavaScript but good luck making an OS or a device driver with it
I’m sure there are projects covering those areas written in JavaScript.
Oh gawd. That would be so horrible! Is there a project o compile JavaScript to bytecode? With like LLVM? There must be, but I haven’t heard of it. I shouldn’t even say anything because I will be better off pretending it doesn’t exist.
Just bundle a JavaScript interpreter with the JavaScript code. No need to compile JavaScript.
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should and i hope that is not a thing
The trope will be “old” once the mainstream view is no longer that C-style memory management is “good enough”.
That said, this particular vulnerability was primarily due to how signals work, which I understand to be kind of unavoidably terrible in any language.
A better language wouldn’t have any need to use POSIX signals in this way.
I’m not totally clear on why signals are used here in the first place. Arguably most C code doesn’t “need” to use signals in complex ways, either.