We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by GaggiX on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:51AM (#35525116)

Any language that enforces memory safety is unlikely to crash because of a segmentation fault.

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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by kylieee on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:58PM (#35527881)

They will instead crash because of an uncaught exception or a panic handler - end result is the same.

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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by GaggiX on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:45PM (#35528531)

By removing segmentation fault crash you have removed a large portion of unwanted crashes, the end result is very different.

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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by kylieee on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:48PM (#35528581)

But the crashes doesn't get removed, they get transformed into error types or exceptions and you still crash when you don't handle them.

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Re:We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible by GaggiX on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @01:53PM (#35528650)

This is only true if the language does not employ static analysis.

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