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The post's core message seems to be lost on HN. It's about screening sources for supposedly insecure and/or injection-prone funcs using simple text scanning (such as strcat, which however is considered in iOS apps when it is a C std API func); supposedly grepability is also about quickly finding code locations of messages and variables. But comments are all about Rust or Go superiority, irrelevant grep implementation details, and AST-based code analysis tools when these are specifically dismissed in TFA as producing too many false positives. Talk about bubbles and echo chambers.



Or maybe the core message just resonates and people have additional discussion in the comments?


Man, n-gate.com is going to have a field day.




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