do memory safe languages matter less now?
do memory safe languages matter less now?
Posted Apr 22, 2026 17:07 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)In reply to: do memory safe languages matter less now? by bertschingert
Parent article: Firefox: The zero-days are numbered
It's an order of magnitude less effort to write your code in a safe language with interfaces which deserve that name and include compiler-enforced guardrails, than to mostly-not-document safe usage of C interfaces – then retroactively find more-or-less-complicated patterns which enable C code to jump over them.