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Fine. With decades and decades of memory safety lessons in the books, it's hard to imagine how C++ was the language of choice when starting new operating system from scratch in 2018.

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It really isn't that hard to imagine someone starting a fun hobby project in the language they enjoyed and were the most comfortable with.

Dunno. It really is. Debugging memory corruption bugs in complex one-memory-space systems is very much not fun.

Nothing a little printf (or dbgln as it is known as in Serenity-Ladybird land) can't fix

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