> If memory safety was the only relevant metric, we would've rewritten everything in Java decades ago. well for a good 15-20 years the jvm had awful startup ti

> If memory safety was the only relevant metric, we would've rewritten everything in Java decades ago. well for a good 15-20 years the jvm had awful startup times which probably was why it was not attractive as a systems language. Does being garbage collected matter for a tool like cat? I would say no