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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by dependenttypes on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:39AM (#23289863)
> I'm still surprised how much stuff is being written in non-safe languages even if people could get away with a managed language.

The distinction between unsafe and managed languages does not make any sense. You can for example have a safe C implementation. No need to move to another language.

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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by doomjunky on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:05AM (#23290235)
But in managed languages the safety comes by default and in unmanaged languages the safety comes by exception.
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Re:Chromium project finds that 70% of security defects are m... by dependenttypes on Sunday May 24, 2020 @05:21AM (#23290301)
In both ways safety comes by the implementation. It just so happens that so called "safe" languages tend to have a single safe implementation while "unsafe" ones tend to have multiple unsafe and one or two safe ones.

Does the amount of unsafe implementations matter?

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