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This is simply not true. For example Ada was much more memory safe than C/C++ and existed from eighties.
by _0w8t 5y ago
This is simply not true. For example Ada was much more memory safe than C/C++ and existed from eighties.
- danaris 5y agoAda was not made for the consumer space: it was made for situations where being provably solid was more important than any other consideration.
- pjmlp 5y agoObject Pascal then, created by Apple for Mac OS and Lisa.
- _0w8t 5y agoNothing in Ada made it impossible to use it on PC or similar devices. And performance of its compiled code was similar to that of C code if not better. And some of its features like ability to return from a function a dynamically-sized stack-allocated array is still not available in C/C++ or Rust for that matter. I guess what really made it a niche language was the cost of compilers. DoD vendors in eighties already learned how to milk their customer.
- danaris 5y agoSure. But that's not what the original poster was arguing.