who am I • security engineering at Stripe • work on (and have capital-F Feelings about) compilers • Co-own the only CVE for a skateboard with mike • (Go lookup 2015-2247 it’s pretty lols) • wrong island con
Compilers are super neat • Sometimes they’ll save you from yourself • Sometimes they won’t • Sometimes they’ll essentially go out of their way to be footguns
Conclusion • I did not actually have a point • I just think compilers are neat • Rust == Good • Go == Good but fucking lulzy if you dare peek under the covers • Shoutout to ben who lent me a charger at 1 this morning