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ELI5: as far as I know, „safe“ programming languages are able to avoid memory related issues that are/were prevalent in C(++). Is this actually the class of bug

ELI5: as far as I know, „safe“ programming languages are able to avoid memory related issues that are/were prevalent in C(++). Is this actually the class of bug that causes most security related issues in the browser?

1oooqooq 2y ago
How do you carry water in a sieve? That's the personnel cost analogy to have safe cpp. His point is not about replacing the sieve, it is about having the money to still have some water across even when using sieves.
dist1ll 2y ago
Yes, memory safety issues make up a large majority of high-severity security bugs in Chromium. See https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safety/ https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
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