Java isn't safe at all, there's a lot of exploits for it.
Proof?
Ghidra is out!
Evan Miller
Leo Gray
Neck yourself you worthless nigger.
Daniel Williams
i'm as much of a java hater as the next guy but the 'poor track record' for java is primarily concerned with client-side exploits targeting the virtual machine.
keep in mind, default behavior in say C, is totally unchecked allocations.
Hunter Williams
It's probably clean. If they were to bug it they wouldn't release it as the NSA. The question then is why they'd release it. I think it's to attract talent, hoping a few shiny toys will make people ignore the fact they're working for the devil.
Carter Jackson
Yep. They've even got a recruitment pitch in the README.
Brody James
Only complaint i heard so far was from some poorly included debug mode bug that opened a port. Sensationalist, but it at least shows one issue. Be interesting to see if they push fixes once the source is posted. I might give it a spin since a lot are raving its comparable to IDA in some regards
Gabriel Hughes
Write once, run everywhere is sadly a meme.
t. victim of write once, debug everywhere
Jack Baker
The NSA has open sourced software before. I can't remember the name of it. Oh yeah because it was fucking useless.
Security moralfags.
Sebastian Murphy
Isn't a bad security track record (somewhat ironically) a good thing? It means the issues have already been found and fixed earlier in the projects life cycle.
Bad UI's seems a bit unfair since that's going to differ on a program to program and even framework to framework basis.
Likewise with performance, that's mostly dependent on the platform it runs on. I'm not going to pretend like safe, runtime oriented languages are going to be faster but the difference should be negligible in most cases.
I can't imagine something like this, which will mostly be idle, being perf dependent. Unlike say, a video encoder trying to max out your CPU for the duration of the process lifetime.
You're obviously free to feel however you wish, but I myself don't think these are reasonable objections in this context. I feel like people see Java and instantly write something off and I don't understand that. Just because some programs written in Java are bad does not make all Java program inherently unusable imo.
Parker Jenkins
Because old software is too correct and efficient. Nu-software is inclusive and has contributions by women, homosexuals and brown people.