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otabdeveloper4
1660 days ago
Point is that measuring stability and safety by counting the number of fashionable buzzwords is totally braindead.
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tazjin
1660 days ago
That's not what anyone is doing though. You can run Nix with minor tweaks to e.g. its garbage collector settings[0] and you'll quickly see it crash in various ways. Memory safety is a real concern in programs, not a buzzword.
[0]:
https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/doc/README.enviro...
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[0]: https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/blob/master/doc/README.enviro...