Memory Safety Debate

The cluster revolves around debates on the importance, necessity, and limitations of memory safety in programming languages like Rust versus C++, particularly in preventing security vulnerabilities.

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Sample Comments

RecycledEle Mar 3, 2024 View on HN

No. Memory safety is a big deal.

jobs_throwaway Oct 18, 2022 View on HN

is memory safety not a real problem?

ameliaquining Feb 18, 2023 View on HN

All languages have memory unsafety somewhere in the stack.

varjag Dec 8, 2021 View on HN

I'm really sorry but memory safety reliant on best practices is not memory safety.

pizlonator Jun 30, 2025 View on HN

This whole conversation is about memory safety of programming languages, not security vulns that no language can prevent

belovedeagle Feb 24, 2017 View on HN

Memory safe languages aren't a panacea. There could just as easily have been a bug in the compiler or standard library with the same result.

kmicklas Jul 10, 2017 View on HN

"Secure" and yet they aren't even using a memory safe language such as Rust.

worldsavior Dec 10, 2022 View on HN

Isn't memory safety needed in all cases?

IshKebab Dec 14, 2025 View on HN

It's not only about memory safety.

quotemstr Jul 9, 2025 View on HN

But I thought security vulnerabilities couldn't happen in memory-safe languages!