Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Alifatisk 446 days ago
> Jakt is a memory-safe systems programming language

> It currently transpiles to C++

So C++ being safe was possible after all

2 comments

C++ is merely behaving as a intermediate language/representation in this case. They are compiling to subset of it. Idiomatic C++ is not safe.
And after that it's compiled to assembly, so I suppose safe assembly was possible after all.