They mention several languages besides Rust that are also much safer than C/C++. 59% of C/C++ programs have vulnerabilities while only 10% of Python do. I wonder: are the Python vulnerabilities mostly from external C libraires? I was trying think of how pure Python can be memory corrupted.

A few weeks ago I read a tutorial on writing Rust Python libraries, and it looked cool. I have just started publishing some of my libraries to PyPi.org but so far what I am writing is pure Python.

Kinda makes you wonder if the OpenAI team is rapidly dealing with memory leaks caused by maliciously formed prompts to ChatGPT right now. Or maybe they wrote it in a memory-safe language?

I doubt it, the GCs would give it a stutter.

If you are doing it right, on multi-threaded computers, modern GCs will usually not result in freezes or stutter. Usually, even on older GCs, only a Full Mark and Sweep GC will cause a pause in operation. If you are seeing a lot of Full GCs usually that means that you aren't managing memory properly or have un-closed resources building up.

That was (mostly) a joke :-)

Ah! Got me!