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		wolfgke on Aug 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System > Unsafe code constrained to the bottom layers of the OS, with everything else on memory safe languages. Chrome, that is used on Android and is a large code base, is written mostly in C++, which you would probably not call a memory safe language.

pjmlp on Aug 20, 2017 [–]

Yeah but writing web apps in HTML/CSS/JavaScript is not the same as using C++.

I would prefer the lower layers also to be written in a memory safe systems programming language, but having the userspace 100% in such a language, would already be quite an improvement versus the current situation.

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