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0 pointspcwalton4y ago0 comments

When I say that a language isn't meaningfully better than C in terms of memory safety, I mean C as programmed in 2022, which very much includes ASan.

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You are misinformed. ASAN is a debugging tool. It is not a mechanism to provide safety to C applications.

I think their reply is fair as a response to the capabilities of "zig test"

We're talking about tests here.

I work with ASan for a living. I know what it is, thank you :)

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0 pointspcwalton4y ago0 comments

When I say that a language isn't meaningfully better than C in terms of memory safety, I mean C as programmed in 2022, which very much includes ASan.

You are misinformed. ASAN is a debugging tool. It is not a mechanism to provide safety to C applications.

I think their reply is fair as a response to the capabilities of "zig test"

We're talking about tests here.

I work with ASan for a living. I know what it is, thank you :)

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