Apropos of recent events, reminder that crashing is memory safe behavior. When someone says something is “safe” it’s a good idea to find out what they mean by the word, since it may not be what you mean by it.

Memory safety makes some bugs easier to diagnose, avoids some types of data corruption, and prevents a very large class of security exploit. It does *not* address availability.

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