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> Beside that, for many problems, a garbage collector eliminates a large amount of defects (including the ones stated in the article)

Languages with garbage collection are generally considered "memory safe". GP was talking about choosing a language that requires manual memory management, but doesn't have something like rust's lifetimes to catch things like use-after-free.



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