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Those who use them will, and have already been doing so even without memory-safe languages, one notable example being that company named after a fruit; but for a long time, there was always a way out.

The metaphor I like to use is "giving them better nooses to put around our necks."

...and I suppose you could argue that neither do guns kill people...?



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