Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem
0x0@programming.dev 3 months agoNo one does, it’s not public yet, if ever. This is close enough.
The real problem was, among others, lack of testing, regardless of the programming language used. Blaming C++ is dumb af. Put a chimpanzee behing the wheel of a Ferrari and you’ll still run into… problems.
SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ll reiterate, if it was a null pointer exception (I honestly don’t know that it was, but every comment I’ve made is based on that assumption, so let’s go with it for now) then I absolutely can blame C++, and the code author, and the code reviewer, and QA. Many links in the chain failed here. But C++ is not a memory safe language, and while it’s had mass improvements in that area in the last two decades, there are languages that make better guarantees about memory safety.
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
but it very probably was not a memory error. Rust isn’t magic. It probably could not have prevented this bug anyway.