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You could argue not having memory safety when there are tools to do so is insane.
by klysm 6y ago
You could argue not having memory safety when there are tools to do so is insane.
- justinmeiners 6y agoMemory safety is not an absolute good which overrides all other things, like performance, portability, compilation, process, compile time etc. It is a problem that is well understood and the kernel developers have a lot of experience and tools for dealing with it. Would it be worth solving well? Definitely, but it has costs and tradeoffs.