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Yes. Having spent too much time debugging code by people who thought they were clever enough not to need language safety, I want language-level protection.

(Did the Python crowd ever fix the race condition in CPickle?[1] They were in denial about this about eight years ago when I reported it. Doing multiple CPickle operations in separate threads can crash CPython. If you search for "CPickle thread crash" you find many reports of hard to reproduce problems in that area.)

[1] https://bugs.python.org/issue23655




I don't see a denial in that bug report - they're just saying that they don't have an actionable repro, and don't know how to get one.




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