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[DavidBrown]

That is not a motivation for re-writing the PNG libraries (or any other existing code). It might be a motivation for choosing Rust as the language for...

[DavidBrown]

Baring compiler bugs (which do happen, but incorrect code generation bugs are rare and usually quickly fixed), compiler flags do not introduce bugs in...

[DavidBrown]

OpenVPN has vastly more features than Wireguard. Of course that leads to the risk of flaws from the bigger code base, complexity, configuration errors,...

[DavidBrown]

I am sure that was reality for you. But you are missing the big issue - was it a good thing?

There are environments where a bit of "off-colour"...

[DavidBrown]

This has always been a challenge for C++, and indeed any language that supports and encourages complex data or control structures. Diagnostics are to...

[DavidBrown]

The first myth to dispel is that there is such a myth as you describe. While it is true plenty of code is written in C when it would probably have been...