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Does it really matter whether it's a scalability issue though? The bottom line is that the code has bugs, whether it's due to the fact that the codebase is large is somewhat irrelevant.


By scalability, I meant more along the lines of, "Is it possible/efficient/reasonable to write large, secure codebases in language X using process Y?"

Answer A is "Yes, bugs come from bad development practices or unskilled programmers."

Answer B is "No, there are fundamental issues with the language that make it unreasonable to expect a secure product."

In other words, are the primary sources of bugs programmers or the ways the language forces them to interface with it?




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