The safe approach to me is exactly their answer to the tradeoff question. Forcing the application developers to be cautious is just changing who needs to be sa

The safe approach to me is exactly their answer to the tradeoff question. Forcing the application developers to be cautious is just changing who needs to be safe, because reducing problems for your app while increasing overall system instability is still bumping up against the issue at hand. It is sort of like how someone might be upset with speed limits, but the people who set the speed limits aren't thinking about your particular desire to get to work today, but the overall flow of traffic and public safety needs. I realize linux still has out-of-memory handling and various safeguards in their memory management, but it is sort of like arguing whether to set the speed limit at 50 or 60. Nobody is actually right, it is just different preferences.