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Re:OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native ... by Koshkin on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:05PM (#34087570)
> C devs? No. Competent systems-level C devs - yes.

I don't think C is special in this regard.

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Re:OpenJDK Proposes Project Galahad to Merge GraalVM Native ... by samus on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:26PM (#34088596)
It actually is. Managed languages don't suffer from many kinds of bugs that C/C++ and other unsafe languages do. Memory corruption and concurrency bugs can be devilishly hard to find in the latter.
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