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Comment by speedstyle

10 hours ago

Races can be memory safe (they are in Java and Ocaml), but in Go they can indeed cause UB.

https://go.dev/ref/mem#restrictions:~:text=such%20races,corr...

https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07/24/memory-safety.html (I don't agree with everything here, but it's a very thorough explanation)

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