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> Some apps don't need memory safety.

Maybe not, but it's still a big pain in the butt to avoid bugs in that area. I imagine that static analysis for memory safety would be something that most developers would use in existing unsafe languages if they could.

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Lint was created for C in 1979… to this day most devs ignore static analysis tooling for C and C++.

Static analysis can be excellent, but it doesn't solve the whole problem.

Indeed, still using it is better than nothing.

For a lot of applications, that doesn't matter. It solves enough of the problem.

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