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A comment on Memory Safe Languages in Android 13. Parent comment

Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by fiedzia on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:18PM (#33822918)
> Is there any practical programming language that is memory safe in its "entirety"?

Whatever can be compiled to BPF meets this requirement. The price though is that it wouldn't be very useful.

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Re:Memory Safe Languages in Android 13 by burntsushi on Thursday December 01, 2022 @04:52PM (#33823413)
Right, that's why I used the word "practical."
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