Zcoin implementation bug enabled attacker to create over 500K Zcoins
The point I'm about to make in this comment is so old and has been said so many times that we all are tired of hearing it. But why do we use a language like C++ to implement something where we don't wish to have bugs?<p>C++ is not memory-safe (no GC or whatever Rust does), it's not type safe (in the ML sense), it relies on writing to memory a lot (instead of having pure functions). Had this program been written in Ocaml or Haskell or a strongly typed functional Lisp, this bug would have been impossible to make.<p>Why do we do this, still? Is it not irresponsible?