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Comment by spacechild1

1 year ago

> So.... Sounds like memory safety is indeed a problem? Otherwise why do so many solutions exist for it?

Memory safety and memory management are different things. Scripting languages remove the burden of manual memory management; as a side effect, they also tend to be memory safe, but that hasn't been the main motivation.

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