alt Hacker NewsIs COBOL actually memory safe in the same way Rust is memory safe? I thought it was just "we don't allow dynamic allocation", and I'd assume programmers often implement their own half-baked dynamic allocation on top.
Is COBOL actually memory safe in the same way Rust is memory safe? I thought it was just "we don't allow dynamic allocation", and I'd assume programmers often implement their own half-baked dynamic allocation on top.
Just like Rust the 'use after free' problem becomes the 'use after it does not make sense' problem instead. Which Valgrind wont find for you either.
I think new Cobol has 'allocate' and 'free' though.