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Concurrency bugs can absolutely cause dangerous danger of the deadly variety: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-

• bakatubas 6y ago
  Unfortunately, as is most always the case of negligence instead of some particular language features: “A commission attributed the primary cause to general poor software design and development practices rather than single-out specific coding errors. In particular, the software was designed so that it was realistically impossible to test it in a clean automated way.“ Ergo, concurrency doesn’t kill people, people do.
  • majewsky 6y ago
    You sound like you make a refutation, but you really don't. This whole discussion is about giving tools to developers that are systematically less error-prone, which your quote suggests would have been helpful to that specific development team.