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Safe languages are computationally more expensive and consume more RAM, the Amiga had it hit price targets ($1300~) which meant they gave it an affordable CPU i
by Someone1234 4y ago
Safe languages are computationally more expensive and consume more RAM, the Amiga had it hit price targets ($1300~) which meant they gave it an affordable CPU in the 7 Mhz Motorola 68000 series and started at only 256 KB.
It is one of those moments in history where hardware was more expensive than time, so spending longer on unsafe languages (e.g. fixing bugs caused by lack of memory safety) was preferable compared to the expensive context-switching often required by safe languages.
Safe languages are a natural choice when hardware is cheaper than programmer time.