>Heartbleed. Majority of all SSL keys on the internet compromised. All ~2 billion of humans on the internet required to change their passwords due to a single mistake by a single programmer using C.
You can write shit code in any language - even Swift.
>how about goto fail?
I haven’t seen a goto in 20+ years. Strawman much?
>C is like saying "forget seat belts, child seats, anti-lock breaks, and adaptive steering! How can I power-slide? I want full control; I need to pump the breaks. People should just drive better, then we'd have fewer accidents”.
Yeah, and I suppose you’d prefer lumberjacks use rubber axes so they wouldn’t hurt themselves - or the trees for that matter. Life is dangerous. Get over it.
>At some point we have to admit C is no longer acceptable.
You bubble wrap your kids and lobby for lower jungle gyms at your kids schools too?
Swift doesn’t solve these problems and you sound like a self righteous ninny.
But hey - thats why there are scripting languages - for people who can’t deal with the machine. Pick one and go for it - but your scripting language isn’t suitably performant for things like audio processing (CoreAudio is in C/C++), real time control with tight tolerances, etc.
Grow the fuck up.
Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty and think hard and make stuff work. Your Swift code isn’t actually “safer” in the same way that the TSA hasn’t made flying safer - it is all security theater.
You can write shit code in any language - even Swift.
>how about goto fail?
I haven’t seen a goto in 20+ years. Strawman much?
>C is like saying "forget seat belts, child seats, anti-lock breaks, and adaptive steering! How can I power-slide? I want full control; I need to pump the breaks. People should just drive better, then we'd have fewer accidents”.
Yeah, and I suppose you’d prefer lumberjacks use rubber axes so they wouldn’t hurt themselves - or the trees for that matter. Life is dangerous. Get over it.
>At some point we have to admit C is no longer acceptable.
You bubble wrap your kids and lobby for lower jungle gyms at your kids schools too?
Swift doesn’t solve these problems and you sound like a self righteous ninny.
But hey - thats why there are scripting languages - for people who can’t deal with the machine. Pick one and go for it - but your scripting language isn’t suitably performant for things like audio processing (CoreAudio is in C/C++), real time control with tight tolerances, etc.
Grow the fuck up.
Sometimes you have to get your hands dirty and think hard and make stuff work. Your Swift code isn’t actually “safer” in the same way that the TSA hasn’t made flying safer - it is all security theater.