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> I'm still surprised how much stuff is being written in non-safe languages even if people could get away with a managed language. The distinction between unsa
by dependenttypes 6y ago
> I'm still surprised how much stuff is being written in non-safe languages even if people could get away with a managed language.
The distinction between unsafe and managed languages does not make any sense. You can for example have a safe C implementation. No need to move to another language.
- doomjunky 6y agoBut in managed languages the safety comes by default and in unmanaged languages the safety comes by exception.
- dependenttypes 6y agoIn both ways safety comes by the implementation. It just so happens that so called "safe" languages tend to have a single safe implementation while "unsafe" ones tend to have multiple unsafe and one or two safe ones. Does the amount of unsafe implementations matter?