Comment by procaryote

Comment by procaryote 2 months ago

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Oh I use it too, just not for anything that needs to scale at all

Cython is a bit of a non-starter for a web context as you're essentially writing C with extra sugar, and can get C style vulnerabilities.

mixmastamyk 2 months ago

Second paragraph is not really true, unless you’ve gone out of your way. Cython is used primarily for compute-bound problems, not processing user input.

  • procaryote 2 months ago

    So as long as you're using it properly and diligently filter all user input before it hits your cython, and don't make any mistakes it's fine?