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https://blogs.embarcadero.com/is-delphi-a-memory-safe-language/
Mar 25 · 9 months ago
🐙 norayr [OP/mod] · 2024-03-25 at 10:26:
i used to think that no, it is not. but apparently the report lists pascal as memory safe. the article explains why.
🚀 stack · 2024-03-25 at 15:08:
The article sounds a bit basic and not particularly convincing. By that logic, BASIC would actually be even safer (with POKE disabled). IRL, the language presents some memory risks, but most action takes place in the libraries anyway. Good luck making the whole infrastructure safe. Or for that matter, the OS, which is likely Windows, because governments make the worst, most corrupt decisions every time.
🚀 stack · 2024-03-25 at 19:15:
It always amuses me, in a dark way, that the US Govt. is constantly bitching about memory safe languages, while wasting trillions of dollars and killing tens of thousands of people, with zero accountability. In the meantime, real businesses and individuals who actually have to pay for things out of their own pocket, do fine with 'dangerous' memory-unsafe tech. Sure, let's blow another hundred billion on the next Ada.
🐝 Addison · 2024-03-27 at 06:26:
No memory is safe from a big ol' capacitor
🐙 norayr [OP/mod] · 2024-03-27 at 11:55:
i guess i don't have enough background to understand this. memory itself is a colection f cells tht hold the charge, i e. capacitors, right? then you say memory is nt safe from capactors? i don't understand.
🚀 stack · 2024-03-27 at 16:01:
It's the operating systems you have to look out for. They eat memory, and you have to keep buying more.