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Java kind of gets around the memory leak problem by allocating all of the leak up front for the JVM. ;)

I'm a JVM guy, but this is a good one :-)

NPE isn't a memory corruption bug.

Java is safe from a class of memory bugs and leaks

It is still possible to leak resources in Java

You have to fool the GC but it is surprisingly easy to do.

Those are safe.

And it’s not like Go didn’t just copy nulls (plus even has shitty initialization problems now, e.g. with make!)