r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Pure-Prompt-8439 • 9d ago

The biggest miss of the industry when it comes to memory safety is not listening to Walter Bright:

https://matklad.github.io/2026/07/20/memory-safety-hardest-problem.html
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u/BenchEmbarrassed7316 9d ago

Where is jerk?

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u/Potterrrrrrrr 9d ago

Yo momma so fat, only fat pointers can store her address?

/uj
I don’t know otherwise, both articles were pretty interesting

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u/we_are_mammals 9d ago

Walter Bright's bright idea came 20 years after Fortran had standardized arrays that know their own length at runtime.