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So many memory corruption issues, I'd like to think in 5/10 years time this would be solved and everything written in a safe language but maybe I'm being optimi

So many memory corruption issues, I'd like to think in 5/10 years time this would be solved and everything written in a safe language but maybe I'm being optimistic.

knodi 11y ago
Thats the same thing people said 10 years ago.
- wtallis 11y ago
  The people saying that 10 years ago were quite obviously being unrealistic. Holding such an opinion back then was essentially predicting that C++ would be replaced by Java, Python, etc. Now, we've got languages like Rust that offer improved safety mechanisms without really sacrificing expressiveness or runtime performance the way "managed" languages do, so there's a real alternative for software that needs the highest performance or best battery life.
tambourine_man 11y ago
If by safe you mean memory managed by default with opting out (unsafe keyword, or something similar), then I would bet so. If you mean safe like there's no way a programer can screw this (100% memory managed like JavaScript, Python, Ruby) than I'd bet not.
- abritishguy 11y ago
  The former, something like Rust.