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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by douglaswlance on Saturday August 11, 2018 @09:10AM (#17739535)
Javascript is not a good choice. It's both verbose and unsafe.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by staticassertion on Saturday August 11, 2018 @09:26AM (#17739583)
Javascript meets the 'safe' definition in the article - memory safe.
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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by spunker540 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @10:27AM (#17739792)
It’s still fairly easy to have subtle memory leaks in JavaScript code due to the way closures can keep variables in scope indefinitely.

https://blog.meteor.com/an-interesting-kind-of-javascript-me...

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Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift by dbaupp on Saturday August 11, 2018 @10:59AM (#17739894)
Memory leaks are memory safe, or, at least, don't lead to memory corruption like other violations of memory safety. https://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/memory-leaks-are-memory...
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