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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by duneroadrunner on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:44AM (#13269314)
Well, I don't know about java's reputation, but there's this:

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/19117/Oracle-JRE.html?vend...

http://www.cvedetails.com/product/1526/SUN-JRE.html?vendor_i...

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by chungy on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @04:42AM (#13269519)
Security exploits say nothing about the language's memory safety design. Java still qualifies as a safe language.
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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by EugeneOZ on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:04AM (#13270491)
As a safe language from race conditions or memory leaks?
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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by adrianN on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:11AM (#13269614)
The Java VM is written in C though.
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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by rat87 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:53AM (#13269750)
There are many java vms

The most popular(hotspot/openjdk) is written in c++/assembly

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