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MEMORY SAFETY FOR SKEPTICS

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Memory safety is still important to understand, even with languages like Rust that are memory-safe by default. This means targeting practical strategies, like prioritizing memory safety in new code, targeting rewrites for critical components, and wrapping unsafe code with safe interfaces. While governments aren't banning C or C++, having better memory safety improves software performance and costs overall.