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		procaryote 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Project Verona: Fearless Concurrency for Python 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 4 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 4 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?

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