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I feel like people on an esteemed forum like Hacker News should be able to move past this kind of beginner-level argument. The point of memory safe languages i
by sunshowers 3y ago
I feel like people on an esteemed forum like Hacker News should be able to move past this kind of beginner-level argument.
The point of memory safe languages is not to not have unsafe code. It is to centralize unsafe code in a few places that can be thoroughly audited, tested, and verified, and then provide safe abstractions on top of that.
- throwawaymaths 3y agoThe point is not about hacker news. The point is: should we choose to regulate this, what level of sophistication do you think regulators will operate at? Inb4 this is only a recommendation: regulation often starts as recommendation trial balloons