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Re:Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes by AlotOfReading on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:45PM (#44392876)
More of a historical footnote than a serious example, but you've never had to kill the Java applications running on your SIM card (or eSIM).
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Re:Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes by frollogaston on Thursday June 26, 2025 @08:47PM (#44392884)
I don't know about that, my flip phone used to crash quite often. And it displayed a lot of Java logos.
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Re:Memory Safety Is Merely Table Stakes by AlotOfReading on Thursday June 26, 2025 @09:02PM (#44392944)
Different processor and JVM. My understanding is that early versions of the Java card runtime didn't even support garbage collection. It was a very different environment to program, even if the language was "Java".
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