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Protecting the programmer is a good sell to corporations though. Less chance of error prone production code, easier for people to develop with, etc.

• alexchamberlain 12y ago
  The same corporations that use the Linux kernel, various database engines and various language runtimes, all of which contain C or C++, many platform specific byte manipulations and various other unsafe features?
  • tormeh 12y ago
    Have you used Linux lately? It's always close to falling apart, in my experience. That the developers are doing a heroic job of keeping all the unsafe parts under control does not mean this is a good idea for the rest of us.
    • alexchamberlain 12y ago
      I use it daily, both personally, for development and in production. Performs better than commercial nix and Windows IMHO; cannot comment on BSDs or Mac.