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by doomjunky 2215 days ago
But in managed languages the safety comes by default and in unmanaged languages the safety comes by exception.
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In both ways safety comes by the implementation. It just so happens that so called "safe" languages tend to have a single safe implementation while "unsafe" ones tend to have multiple unsafe and one or two safe ones.

Does the amount of unsafe implementations matter?