Josh and Kurt talk about the NSA guidance on using memory safety issues. The TL;DR is to stop using C. We discuss why C has so many problem, why we can't fix C, and what some alternatives looks like. Even the alternatives have their own set of issues and there are many options, but the one thing we can agree on is we have to stop using C.

Show Notes

• NSA Releases Guidance on How to Protect Against Software Memory Safety Issues
• Drum memory and the story of Mel
• Netflix performance
• Discord Go vs Rust
• NVIDIA switch to Spark