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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pjmlp on Friday February 05, 2021 @03:27AM (#26034232)
> C -> Zig

If dealing with uses after free and lack of bounds checked access in release code is still a fun factor.

> Java -?-> Go

Not at all, unless one misses Java 1.4 with loots of if/else boilerplate.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by cassepipe on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:12AM (#26035102)
- But huh, if you checked that at runtime compiling un debug mode, and then you compile you compile the exact same code... It should be OK right ?

- I think you're right. C is more l'île a garbage collected C.

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Re:Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advance... by pjmlp on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:48AM (#26035306)
Big if, specially if you haven't tested all use cases.

It is the same fallacy as C code is safe if everything was checked, while CVEs keep happening.

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