> Another way to reach the same conclusion is to note that this post's argument proves far too much; by the definition used by this author, most other higher-level languages (the author exempts Java, but really only Java) also fail to be memory safe.

This is wrong.

I explicitly exempt Java, OCaml, C#, JavaScript, and WebAssembly. And I implicitly exempt everyone else when I say that Go is the only language I know of that has this problem.

(I won't reply to the rest since we're already discussing that at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44678566 )