I agree that memory-safe languages are necessary. And many others here would agree on this.
But many coders write in C and C++ in a way like these languages are memory-safe. Like, "Hey, Bob, why you check this parameter for array size bounds here? I already checked it in function which calls this code! Your check slows code for 0.3%!".
But problem that caused this outage is NOT a memory leak or out-of-bounds data read/write. It was malformed "content update". Broken input data.
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2024-07-20 09:17:04
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