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Re:The Jakt Programming Language by Alifatisk on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @06:52PM (#43476926)
> Jakt is a memory-safe systems programming language

> It currently transpiles to C++

So C++ being safe was possible after all

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Re:The Jakt Programming Language by zamalek on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @07:35PM (#43477242)
C++ is merely behaving as a intermediate language/representation in this case. They are compiling to subset of it. Idiomatic C++ is not safe.
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Re:The Jakt Programming Language by pirgidb on Wednesday March 26, 2025 @12:18AM (#43478837)
And after that it's compiled to assembly, so I suppose safe assembly was possible after all.
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