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Something something history is a flat circle (europe.pub)

submitted 6 days ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

Null safety and memory safety are different features.

Null safety means that you cannot access a struct's fields without first checking if the pointer to that struct isn't null. And this must be a compile-time check.

Memory safety means that you cannot read or write to/from memory that has been free-ed. Without leaks ofc, otherwise it would be very easy.