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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by naasking on Saturday October 29, 2022 @09:43AM (#33383975)
> Instead all of them make debugging easier by reducing the search space, usually eliminating fairly trivial bugs

The last 50 years of CVEs suggests they're not so trivial.

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Re:Why is D's garbage collection slower than GO's? by mpweiher on Sunday October 30, 2022 @04:46AM (#33392496)
You're right, I should have specified that I meant trivial in terms of cause, not in terms of impact.

That's why static typing and unit testing are both practically much better at reducing bugs than they have any right to be theoretically.

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