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And I never said that anyone is telling me to use Java. It was an example.

Because of the nature of AV software, its code would be drowning in "unsafe" memory accesses no matter the language we chose. This is AV, it's always trying to read the memory that is not AV's, from its very design.

This is a story about bad software management processes, not programming languages.




Reading memory from another process can be done through memory-safe APIs.

To give an example from the linux userspace world: https://docs.rust-embedded.org/rust-sysfs-gpio/nix/sys/uio/f...




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