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See now what I mean by calling this a trade-off? Not everyone is in the same boat. I don't understand how this can even be a controversial stance.



Microsoft and Firefox have cited around 70% memory bugs, and they probably have tooling and whatnot. There are a few languages with good C/C++ FFI that are a better choice for memory safety, and so the tradeoff there isn't very high. I grant there may be ABI edge cases or whatever, but C/C++ is no longer viable or necessary for a good portion of software.




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