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We're celebrating that we've moved away from insecure languages with manual memory management to secure high level languages, sandboxes and whatnot, and the first thing we do is "yay coding got easier let's increase complexity by 1000x". At least sometimes I really feel like this, but probably just getting old.

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I don't think it's as simple as that - we have higher level languages that protect us from trivial security issues like buffer overruns, but that's a net good. There is no advantage we would gain in security from rolling that back.

Instead, it gives us exposure to a new set of higher level security problems, that over time we will need to develop higher level primitives to navigate. We would still have these problems with lower level languages, we'd just be too overwhelmed with smaller issues to properly address them

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