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I was asking the GP why he cited safety as a feature of Go. I agree with you; that's not a good argument.
by wyager 10y ago
I was asking the GP why he cited safety as a feature of Go. I agree with you; that's not a good argument.
- weberc2 10y agoI can't speak for the GP, but my interpretation is that safety is a feature of Go, but it's not unique to Go. Go is more safe than some languages, but less safe than others.
- geodel 10y agoWe can look at how many security updates Java release for a particular version. I see around 35 releases for Java 8 vs 6-7 release for Go during same period.
- wyager 10y agoThat's not what people mean when they refer to the "safety" of a language. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety http://tobyho.com/2008/03/30/how-safe-is-your-programming/ http://tobyho.com/2008/03/30/how-safe-is-your-programming/ The fact that people consider "security releases" for compilers/runtimes to be normal and acceptable is actually extremely alarming to me, but it's different from language safety.