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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2025
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As a C++ programmer some Rust people can come on a little strong, as if I've never thought about the importance of memory safety before and don't know how to write secure code (well excuse me for building on top of decades of libraries that no one thought to write in rust in the '80s).
But that's normal programmer flame war stuff. Rust people tend to be young and enthusiastic about security which is all good.
pretty much every programming language discussion I’ve ever been in has at least one person come in with a chip on their shoulder, ready to burn down civilisation in the name of readability or ease of use or memory safety or what have you.
IMO it’s an abyss staring thing; you spend enough time in the code mines and you’ll discover some gleaming orb of fascination. Hypothetically this is cured by grass touching. I have been both places.
That is why I’m proud to announce my new, everything safe programming language: C’thlaglthorp, or Ctt for short.
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People who dislike C'thlaglthorp tend to come in two camps: the ones that prefer significant whitespace and the ones that don't.
I was only describing a specific kind of person, certainly wasn't trying to imply that C/C++ devs generally have no care for security!
Oh yeah I got that no worries.