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  1. 🧠πŸ’₯ "Memory Safety for Skeptics" is here to convince you that worrying about your software's memory safety is just as thrilling as watching paint dry. 🎨😴 Despite #Rust being hailed as the knight in shining armor for this cause, it's really just a hipster language trying to make buffer overflows feel passΓ©. πŸ›‘οΈπŸ“‰
    queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=37 #MemorySafety #Skeptics #Programming #BufferOverflows #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🚦 Ah yes, because "Parse, Don't Validate" is totally going to save you from C's foot-gun tendencies. πŸ˜‚ Let's all pretend that throwing conceptual correctness at C won't lead to a spectacular explosion of memory leaks and buffer overflows! πŸ”₯
    lelanthran.com/chap13/content. #CProgramming #MemoryLeaks #BufferOverflows #SoftwareDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated