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		stouset 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There is no memory safety without thread safety A CVE is worse, but a threading bug resulting in corrupted data or a crash is still a bug that needs someone to triage, understand, and fix.

crawshaw 3 months ago [–]

But it's not why I stopped writing C programs. It's just a bug and I create and fix a dozen bugs every day. Security is the only argument for memory safety that moves mountains.

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