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Different application areas have needs for different kinds of safety and different degrees of safety. For example, the possibility of a resource leak (of memory, file handles, locks, and thread handles) can enable denial of service attacks. Simple lack of data validation is a major source of program misbehavior and security violations. We don’t consider a system that relies on manual resource release safe. C++ has offered facilities for handling resource release automatically for decades. Most newer languages do not.

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Different application areas have needs for different kinds of safety and different degrees of safety. For example, the possibility of a resource leak (of memory, file handles, locks, and thread handles) can enable denial of service attacks. Simple lack of data validation is a major source of program misbehavior and security violations. We don’t consider a system that relies on manual resource release safe. C++ has offered facilities for handling resource release automatically for decades. Most newer languages do not.
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rain 🌦️ :verified_trans: (rain@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 10-Dec-2023 12:13:43 JST rain 🌦️ :verified_trans:
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What is this talking about??? Python has the with keyword, Java has had AutoCloseable since 2011, and even PHP has refcounting so resources are released if you don't duplicate a reference (and everything's cleaned up at the end of the request in any case). Saying that most newer languages don't have "facilities for handling resource release automatically" is a bald-faced lie! The people who wrote this should have to face professional consequences.

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