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Re:FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults by thrwaway6318 on Friday July 05, 2019 @02:48PM (#20364810)
>and perhaps other factors such as language used) and extrapolate from there.

I'm curious about this statement. Which languages do you think indicate greater security, which ones tend to indicate the opposite?

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Re:FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults by CameronNemo on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:02PM (#20364912)
Languages with a garbage collector will be able to avoid some of the worst memory errors.
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Re:FreeBSD – A lesson in poor defaults by asveikau on Friday July 05, 2019 @03:57PM (#20365360)
Usually people say it's bounds checking and preventing use after free rather than GC. It's possible to have both without GC.
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