[davidw]

Much of the article is dedicated to hardware level memory problems. Most of the 'safer' languages I know about would not really help you in those situations. Maybe there are some odd mainframe languages that read and write everything twice or something like that, but most 'safer' languages I know about are more oriented towards preventing programmer errors. What antirez is saying that, yes, they get some of those, but many others, due to how widely used the system is, that are genuine memory failures, that cost a lot of time to track down.