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[bachmeier]

On Monday, 22 January 2024 at 16:39:10 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:

>> I've said multiple times that it's silly to spend so much time 
>> on memory safety if the language is going to allow stuff like 
>> this without a simple way to prevent it.
>
> Memory safety issues are a worse class of bug than arithmetic 
> bugs.

The required language changes are pretty small to catch 
arithmetic bugs relative to implementing memory safety. 
Ultimately, you want the compiler to help you catch bugs in any 
form, and I don't think someone that wants memory safety is 
likely to be okay with the type of bugs in this thread.

But for me, arithmetic bugs are a much larger problem than memory 
safety. I mostly use the GC plus calls into well-tested C 
libraries. I get incorrect results, and when I'm lucky, my 
program segfaults because I accessed something I shouldn't. When 
I'm not, it silently and happily gives me the wrong answer.