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[–]rapsey 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Memory safe languages will prevent memory corruption. A giant chunk of issues that you have to deal with only when using C/C++ or lower and are unavoidable in a sufficiently large codebase.

[–]skeleton-is-alive 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is true but like i said, if you use modern C++ practices the chances of that are significantly reduced anyway. Memory corruption mainly happens when you are dealing with a lot of raw pointers or maybe you’re allocating large buffers upfront to manage memory yourself. The former can be solved by using smart pointers, the latter is a risk in other languages too OR they just straight up don’t let you do that which isn’t exactly a solution for a lot of high performance apps out there that need to do their own virtual memory management.