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I don't think GC'ed languages are actually safer from a memory safety viewpoint, they're just easier to use.
by muldvarp 6y ago
I don't think GC'ed languages are actually safer from a memory safety viewpoint, they're just easier to use.
- dnautics 6y agoit depends on the GC'd language. You absolutely cannot do use-after-free, double-free, or stack overflow in erlang (unless you FFI into C). You can OOM erlang (but you can OOM Rust, too).