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by otabdeveloper4 1945 days ago
> memory unsafety

Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

As far as payment processors go, I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs.

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> Memory unsafety is just one class of safety bugs, and a relatively unimportant one.

Wrong. Memory unsafety, in its various forms, is the primary source of exploits in software written in C.

> I'd be much more worried about concurrency bugs

Another thing which is hard to do in C, and so much easier in some more modern programming languages (particularly in Rust).