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  • himazawa@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Playing around with the SecureFlag platform, pretty interesting IMHO. Also want to start a new language to stick with, I am pretty undecided between Zig (but is not memory safe by design) elixir (functional programming still isn’t my thing) and nim (can’t handle any more language with indentation-based codeblocks).

    Any suggestion is welcome, I will use them to build mostly security tools.

    • highspire@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Just noticed Zig with the 2023 StackOverflow survey. Stood out as a language people seemed to be happy with, and paid a lot. I tried elixir for a day and, like you, it wasn’t my thing. For what it’s worth (less than the cost of the electricity used in the process of posting my comment), I say maybe try Zig