I replaced Plone for my personal use with about 1000 lines of Python. A object oriented database. The interface is awkward but if you get past that the goal was to produce pictures of trees with graphviz.
If you don't think C or C++ are sane languages you are never going to write any thing sane for Von Neumann computers imo. Much less something cross platform.
Whenever I see a small comment like “C++ bad, X good” I wonder if the poster has a thorough understanding or they just hold the opinion because it’s fashionable since they heard it so many places prior.
Heartbleed was reviewed twice by literal OpenSSL experts and security experts who were specifically looking at it to determine whether it was a security vulnerability or not and concluded (incorrectly) it was not. And now it's the poster child for bad software bugs.
It's really hard to write correct software in any language, and time has shown again and again that memory safety is just not something you can hope to do without if you care about security in the slightest.
I think possibly "perpetuating the fear" was the intent. I'm not siding with OP as I don't use C but if they think it's a bad choice then they probably want to assist other people in avoiding that choice.
If it wasn't for the "potty police" banning drugs what use would people have for cryptocurrency? But the point is people have a use for it... When the author says "should die in a fire" he really means poor people drug users. The problem in his eyes is the drug users are now rich from cryptocurrency.
"regulatory arbitrage" It is fancy way to call freedom. Yes it has been reduced to pump and dump scams but how is that different than the stock market?
I replaced Plone for my personal use with about 1000 lines of Python. A object oriented database. The interface is awkward but if you get past that the goal was to produce pictures of trees with graphviz.