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		otabdeveloper1 on April 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, wh... > ...we're going to massively regret letting type safety and other features slide. PHP is memory safe, and yet is a larger source of data breaches and security bugs than C by (rough guess) an order of magnitude. C is not the bogeyman you're looking for.

ComputerGuru on April 22, 2019 [–]

PHP may be memory safe but the shitload of poorly written C extensions enabled by default on all hosts that shipped with the distribution from 1995 to 2010 sure as hell weren't.

otabdeveloper1 on April 23, 2019 | [–]

C extensions wasn't the part of PHP that broke the amateur Internet, SQL injections were.

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