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		mseepgood on Oct 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nghttp3 1.0.0 – HTTP/3 library written in C Data races have nothing to do with memory safety. Please do not conflate these two. Java, C#, Go, etc. can all have data races, but they are all memory safe languages.

anonymoushn on Oct 22, 2023 [–]

Golang permits safe code to use a data race to cause type confusion and violate memory safety though.

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