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by OJFord 2210 days ago
I think the reason such a magic wand can't exist is actually why it would be a material improvement if it did - it would fix swathes of bugs that rustc would refuse to compile, and that require understanding the application semantics to fix.

I don't know when I last saw a kernel oops or data corruption either, but iu certainly routinely experience bugs that could be manifestations of memory mismanagement.

And if everything written in Java would be transpiled, with no `panic`s, bells, or tracebacks :vom:'ed into the GUI, oh how I'd celebrate.