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Rochusyesterday at 10:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Thanks. Preparations for the migraion of AOS/Bluebottle are underway. Concerning memory safety: it's only memory safe if you don't use the SYSTEM module features, and OberonSystem 3 (and later) heavily depend on those features.


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pjmlpyesterday at 10:51 AM

Sure, but that in the end is what matters with memory safe systems languages, reduction of attack surface and easy to spot when safety is being disabled.

Alternative being Assembly written primitives, like in Smalltalk originally. Blue book description.

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