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In this thread: people who believe the myth of the safe C programmer. The one who has memorized the spec and is able to hold endless context in their brain while writing code. They themselves are C compilers.
I learnt C around about 1997 and I've used it off and on professionally since about 2006. I am not a myth, and there are many others like me.
What do you want me to write?
Can you point to relevant non-trivial public work of yours that has zero CVE's?
The more you learn and know, the more you refrain from making such statements. This is universally applicable, and not limited to C or programming. And that's what makes your "story" suspect.
Or maybe it's a reading comprehension issue.
^I^ ^used^ ^to^ ^write^ ^non-trivial^ ^C^ ^code^ ^myself^ ^btw.^
That's quite an insulting insinuation, and no, I'm not going to doxx myself on my pseudonymous piefed account.
What do you want me to write?
You're kidding yourself if you think most people in this thread are actually programmers. Most people here wouldn't know the difference between C and Rust code if they saw it, let alone be able to write anything in either language.
I think that there are certain attitudes that mainly occur to people outside the domain. Like how people endlessly shit on open-source projects, but few of those people are ever actually at the wheel of one.