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>>zxombi+(OP)
It's really great to see this level of hardware innovation and investment into security! Although it's a bit of a shame that we're down this path because of the inertia of unsafe programming languages and systems that put performance first. In some sense we're starting to pay back a big debt.

I try to choose my words carefully (these kinds of conversations can get pretty toxic pretty quick). But honestly I think in the long arc of history, C will be regarded like asbestos: very obviously dangerous in retrospect. I respect the designers of C immensely and the amount of work many thousands of people the world over have put into that entire toolchain and ecosystem, but we can't blamelessly have that conversation yet, so I guess I'll stop here.

>>titzer+2d1
The year is 1961 and C is still about 10 years away to become a reality, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems_descri...