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Rob Pike on the byte order fallacy and C
Radar item: a quoted passage from Rob Pike's essay argues that C makes byte order bugs easy to create, while type-safe languages make such code hard to write.
This Radar item, dated October 28, 2026, collects a quoted passage from Rob Pike's essay on the byte order fallacy. According to the source, C makes it easy to create byte order problems, while type-safe languages make this kind of code hard to write. The source presents this as a concrete view of why these bugs arise in C and how language design influences the outcome.
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Original source: Rob Pike sobre a falácia da ordem dos bytes e o C