On the one side I really like c and c++ because they’re fun and have great performance; they don’t feel like your fighting the language and let me feel sort of creative in the way I do things(compared with something like Rust or Swift).

On the other hand, when weighing one’s feelings against the common good, I guess it’s not really a contest. Plus I suspect a lot of my annoyance with languages like rust stems from not being as familiar with the paradigm. What do you all think?

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Wasn’t Go designed to be a memory safe systems programming language? I haven’t really used it enough to see if it holds true, though.

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Go is almost memory safe, but it does suffer from an issue with its thick pointers (type + address) that can cause race conditions to misrepresent the type of a data structure. This can lead to true segmentation faults and out of bound memory accesses, though it will probably be quite difficult (but not impossible) to exploit them.

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Segfaults aren’t particularly dangerous. They mean the problem was caught. The program usually just exits.

Failing to segfault, thereby allowing a bad memory access, is where the real trouble happens.

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No, if you try to index something out-of-bounds it will panic, which is not a memory-safety gap.

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