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Right and there are other ways to achieve strong security guarantees than memory safety, e.g. at the OS level by sandboxing critical operations.
by uecker 2y ago
Right and there are other ways to achieve strong security guarantees than memory safety, e.g. at the OS level by sandboxing critical operations.
- littlestymaar 2y ago1. It's much more expensive that using a memory-safe language in the first place (maybe cheaper it if you have a big codebase already, but still very expensive and not worth it at all for new code) 2. Sandbox escapes are commonplace, and not everything can even be sandboxed at all.