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jitl • today at 6:29 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> PDF is an old format from a more innocent era

if apple parsed pdf with (js, swift, rust) none of this would be possible. the problem is memory-unsafe code.


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Someone • today at 8:26 PM

> if apple parsed pdf with (js, swift, rust) none of this would be possible

Interpreters and compilers can have bugs. Bugs can cause memory safety issues.