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Is there a safety advantage to using Java given that the HotSpot JVM is written in C++? All safe code is built on a foundation of unsafe code.
by sunshowers 1y ago
Is there a safety advantage to using Java given that the HotSpot JVM is written in C++?
All safe code is built on a foundation of unsafe code.
- uecker 1y agoSure, but the point is that you can also build reasonably safe abstractions in C / C++.
- sunshowers 1y agoThe last fifty years have shown us that you can't — at least not sustainably and at scale. You can do so at one moment in time, or for smaller projects, but not in the face of large scale projects with team members changing over time.
- uecker 1y agoI don't this the last fifty years show this at all, although Rust proponents want you to believe this.
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- sunshowers 1y agoI guess.