There is no other way to use a gun than shooting with it. (Useful! Of course you could use it like a hammer, but... Srsly.)

It's whole purpose is, to hurt someone; i think that's some point to acknowledge first.

You can go hunting with it or shoot for fun or make yourself feel safer. What can I do with encryption other than encrypt messages I want to hide?

//Playing devil's advocate

Well, there are very good reasons to hide messages.

First of all, I don't want any company in transit, from my ISP, to the message broker, to the receivers ISP to mine my data and use/sell it for profit.

Secondly, there are a lot of messages which are not illegal, but can be personally embarrassing if they were to become public. Think of sexually-tinted messages, psychological help, a kid who lives in a very conservative community and has doubts about their religion, discussions about a candidate for a job position, etc.

The problem with backdoor is that the question is not if they are exploited, but when they are exploited. And this is all assuming that the organization that has backdoor access is not of ill will.

Sorry, i thought Java is in the category of "C-Like Languages"?

Maybe my teachers where wrong here. Possible.

Java also uses C-like syntax.

Just do it. It seems thats all what you Can do except hiring another guy to identify your problem in this special field.

If it's possible, it is indeed possible.

Stutters, but working on Android Chrome 56.

Im pretty impressed about the stupid Shell X)

Artist-Names are possible. In germany, atleast, you can carry it on your Passport with ur real Name.

For those(like me) who are looking for the famous reference Implementation Vector, it got a rename[0] to Riot[1] lately.

[0]Rename: https://medium.com/@RiotChat/lets-riot-f5b0aa99dc8e#.3toozs7...

Homepage: https://matrix.org/docs/projects/client/riot.html

Am i the only one, who get slowly angry about that "Use $language but Not this One"-comments? I don't see much value in such comments, srsly.

Why don't accept the fact someone decided to write $it, and move on with usefull comments? Enough hn this today.

Yes, I had a similar thought.

The top two comment chains right now are (to paraphrase) "See, modern C++ isn't free of memory issues" and "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare".

> "Maybe we should rewrite it in Rust and compare"

That already happened, almost three years ago.

It's an interesting comparison point. The OP contains memory corruption bugs in C++'s standard regex library. If Rust claims to prevent these kinds of bugs, does it actually hold up to scrutiny? One way of testing that is throwing a fuzzer against a regex library written in Rust.

Boost is not the "C++ standard regex library", it's one of the best known C++ libraries.