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Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC by pshc on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @04:16PM (#12045590)
They are mostly reliable (though probably still full of security holes) despite C—made possible by the millions of person-hours thrown at the problem of maintaining large C codebases.

Back then, we had no choice. We can do better.

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Re:Go’s march to low-latency GC by DanWaterworth on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @05:22PM (#12045979)
Essentially all but the most used code-paths with be bug riddled. This paper [1] on finding bugs in C compilers by fuzzing is an interesting case-study.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4241

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