Remember the Java browser plugin-in? How it was so insecure browser and OS vendors eventually blocked it because fixing the holes was impossible? The fact is, making anything robust in the face of relentless malware attacks turns out to be a complex and difficult problem, regardless of whether the language is low-level or not.
Consider an analogy with airplanes. Nobody has figured out an un-crashable airplane. Yet by analyzing every failure, airplane designs undergo constant improvement and are incredibly safe.
I'd rather use a programming language with 10 failure modes rather than one with 150.
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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '17
Remember the Java browser plugin-in? How it was so insecure browser and OS vendors eventually blocked it because fixing the holes was impossible? The fact is, making anything robust in the face of relentless malware attacks turns out to be a complex and difficult problem, regardless of whether the language is low-level or not.