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by sph 621 days ago
Why go fancy? Even Python saves you from use-after-free.
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Come on, I had to outbid Ada somehow :)

For what it's worth, Python was also considered at some point for use in the Firefox codebase. I don't remember the rationale for not adopting it, but I think the idea was "we all like Python, but we already have one messy language (JavaScript), let's not make it two".