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		burakemir 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Memory Safety for Skeptics Did you read what I wrote up there? There is art and there is science. What both have in common is that their protagonists do not intend to become obstacles of progress. I'm afraid GC'd languages have been around for a very long time and yet we continue to talk about memory safety as an urgent problem. Now what? How does pretending that low-level memory safety is not its own complex domain deserving of its own technical definitions help with anything?

tptacek 3 months ago [–]

The urgent problem is the problem settings where GC'd languages are not a good fit, including kernels and userland-kernels (AKA browsers). The problem is not that GC'd languages are insufficiently memory-safe.

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