It’s time to kill the web app
I find this unconvincing.Every negative thing said about the web is true of every other platform, so far. It just seems to ignore how bad software has always been (on average)."Web development is slowly reinventing the 1990's."The 90s were slowly reinventing UNIX and stuff invented at Bell Labs."Web apps are impossible to secure."Programs in the 90s were written in C and C++. C is impossible to secure. C++ is impossible to secure."Buffers that don’t specify their length"Is this really a common problem in web apps? Most web apps are built in languages that don't have buffer overrun problems. There are many classes of security bug to be found in web apps, some unique to web apps...I just don't think this is one of them. This was a common problem in those C/C++ programs from the 90s the author is seemingly pretty fond of. Not so much web apps built in PHP/JavaScript/Python/Ruby/Perl/whatever.