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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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