Re: Can't Avoid That Shit Rust - Even On Gentoo

On 9/24/24 08:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 02:45:16 -0400, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

Still have my K&R 'C' book ...

 Would hope you have caught up with C99, at least.
 

Oh, "network programming" is HARD ...

 Not that hard. Some of us do it every day.
 <https://gitlab.com/ldo/ssl_try_python/>
 

Wrote a FORTRAN app just a couple of years ago ...

 Did you use a suitably recent version of Fortran, namely Fortran 90 at
least? It’s quite a decent language these days.

We can all do network programming. The art is making it secure and resilient.
Not the kind of thing you want a sloppy application developer like me going anywhere near, which is why I choose to avoid it whenever possible, and to use services that hide the complexity, as far as possible.