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That's a good point. I was thinking of compiled languages and so wasn't thinking about those.

There are memory safe compiled languages too, e.g. Go or Dart. I think Java and maybe C# can be AoT compiled too these days.

As well as Nim and Swift

Java and C# have been AOT compiled from yearly days as well, the difference to today was for Java AOT compilers were only available in commercial JDKs, and NGEN only supported dynamic linking, while being designed for fast startup times only.

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