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by whyever 2983 days ago
> With new "safe" languages you do not encounter an error most of the time, but when you do see an error it is quite discouraging to see that your "safe" language fails and you don't have any idea why it fails.

I think it is very odd that you argue for C, which has the concept of undefined behavior, which is much, much worse than any kind of failure the memory-safe languages without static types can offer.

> In that matter I find the OpenBSD developers' use of C much more secure than any package on npm.

Bold claim, they still fall victim to undefined behavior:

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-97/O...