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That's a defeatist position.

99% of the problem is just wanting to not have to rewrite a hundred parsers in memory-safe languages.

It's just economics and engineering.

They don't have to change everyone's minds or fix the world. They'd need to invest a lot but so far nobody really thinks it's worth it.




People try to address that will simpler solutions that wouldn't break backwards compatibility or require a full re-write.

Isolation, mitigation and prevention of exploitation is common.




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