Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:43:12 +0200 From: Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com> To: Freebsd hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Thought experiment] Bringing swift into an experimental branch? Message-ID: <1A6E4DCB-20C0-42D7-B06F-8427D49BD6BA@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20250617221134.616f464f@rimwks.local> References: <7344B44E-0AED-44CA-903D-B8DFC2D56311@gmail.com> <20250617013743.3b5108f0@rimwks.local> <7ced7b14-0508-42f0-b432-0c609a6245a7@gmail.com> <20250617221134.616f464f@rimwks.local>
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> On 17 Jun 2025, at 21:11, Rozhuk Ivan <rozhuk.im@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > Safety is a modern bull shit ideology. Oh for the good old days when you could sell all manner of deathtraps without all that pesky regulation. > Most cryticall things have recovery procedures, so no matter crash or exploit will happen. Critical applications like health, aerospace, automotive, railways and industrial control usually go to great lengths to avoid crashes. They have their own standards that have to be met. I do wonder what insurance companies will make of it all. Will they be willing to insure safety critical products built using memory unsafe software? > For real safety we have a guns and other real world things. If the local nuclear reactor goes into meltdown because of yet another C buffer overrun you’re going to shoot it to protect yourself? A+ Paulhelp
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