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dralley
1d ago
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A tiny fraction of programs need to use win32 or Mac OS functions beyond the standard library or other safe wrappers for said functions.
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saghm
21h ago
And even in those programs, only a fraction of the code in them is actually directly making calls to those APIs! Having everything else in safe code still makes it easier to audit than if the entire codebase is in C or C++.
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