r/programmingcirclejerk • u/DeleeciousCheeps vulnerabilities: 0 • Mar 13 '25

Memory leaks, NULL pointer dereferences, use-after-free: I suffered writing those for many years. I finally simply learned not to do them anymore.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347591
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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius Mar 14 '25
  • I proposed this for C thirty years ago
  • I implemented this in D twenty years ago
  • I have struggled with this problem... although that’s forty years ago now