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> Hopefully, there are no memory safety skeptics, other than rhetorical strawmen. There are plenty of such skeptics. It's why Google, Microsoft, etc all needed
by Ar-Curunir 11mo ago
> Hopefully, there are no memory safety skeptics, other than rhetorical strawmen.
There are plenty of such skeptics. It's why Google, Microsoft, etc all needed to publish things like "70% of our vulnerabilities are memory-safety linked".
Even today, the increasing popularity of Zig indicates that memory-safety is not taken as a baseline.
- MeetingsBrowser 11mo agoGood point. There are even two posts about Zig on the front page along side this post.
- pjmlp 11mo agoIndeed Zig would be interesting 30 years ago, when Modula-2 and Object Pascal were all over the place, and writing full games in Assembly was still seen as pretty normal.