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I agree with "Safety is a spectrum". By all accounts, Java is a "safe language"... until your code uses sun.misc.Unsafe

• pjmlp 4y ago
  Or JNI, Panama,...
  • exabrial 4y ago
    Does JNI allow native code to make changes to JVM heap? I thought everything in JNI was copied in/out
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      Not directly, only via conversion of handles into references/buffers, however once you call into external native code all bets are open. Most of the time a Java application core dumps most likely there is a native method on the call stack close to the crash point.