Google's take on memory safety

[Dukc]

On Friday, 8 March 2024 at 09:09:12 UTC, Monkyyy wrote:
> Python and java, and js are not exactly safe languges, there no 
> way to inturpt the high ranking as being coherently designed 
> around safety.

They are safe languages, as far as the common definition goes. 
What they lack compared to likes of D, Rust or Nim enable is the 
ability to forgo the GC and allocate memory / cast types manually 
when you have to.

Well, there usually is some way to do that even in those 
languages if you're determined enough, but it tends to be much 
harder than in a purpose-built systems programming language. 
Plus, in all likelihood the low-level controls are completely 
implementation-specific, as opposed to standard part of the 
language.

C and C++ are the opposite: you can go low-level easily enough, 
but they don't have a standard safe subset of the language.