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What are your favorite statically typed, compiled, memory safe programming languages? (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You forgot that beauty - "undefined behavior"!

Memory-safety can guarantee only so much safety! C++ can still blow up in your face, even with all the alleged memory-safety built into C++, thanks to all the UB traps in C and C++.

Rust is the closest language that has no such "gotchas".