Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.net•DARPA initiates a new program to automate the translation of the world’s highly vulnerable legacy C code to the inherently safer Rust programming languageEnglish
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2 days agoYour bank runs on COBOL and your energy plants run on one of a family of PLC (programmable logic controller) languages. Most of the critical path in your day-to-day that runs C is the gaping security hole that is the internet.
Rollerblading is pretty achievable, still, but I’m definitely not going in for wheels that are not physically attached to my body.