In the realm of annoying or unsafe things that your operating system can be doing, I can think of many, many things in Microsoft's Windows 11 that I dislike more than anything Apple is doing in macOS. I'm just saying, I wish someone would find a solution to this problem other than ...
Silverlight, and Oracle’s Java plug-in. The “Unsafe” plug-in setting instructs Safari to run the plug-in outside the sandbox. This is intended as a last resort for plug-ins that don’t yet run correctly inside a sandbox. (This setting also allows plug-ins to load despite the exist...
I could go off on another tangent about how programmers always seem to think the language they're currently using provides exactly the right amount of abstraction for the task at hand, with anything less dynamic being considered barbaric, and anything more dynamic seen as crazy and unsafe, but...
So this left developers with a choice: safe, easy, but limited Visual Basic, or unsafe, complex, fiddly, powerful C++. Meanwhile, Sun was busy inventing and developing Java. Caffeinated competition Sun wanted Java to be used everywhere. Desktop applications, server applications, little embedded ...