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WARNING: This product contains programming languages known to the State of California to cause memory unsafety

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Modern Object Pascal is a highly underrated programming language. It does indeed teach good programming habits and how to properly do manual memory management without getting burned.

I’m pretty sure there are engineers who also have concerns and they brought them before politicians. I think we are so used to the only people getting their voices heard being oil lobbyists and healthcare CEO’s that we sometimes forget that the government “can” in principle… Work.

It is a universal warning. There is absolutely no (and cannot possibly be) a product out there which doesn't. It is akin to saying "this person will eventually die".

I would not trust the State of California to evaluate computer languages for any property such as memory unsafety. I would not trust Beacon Hill in Boston to evaluate memory unsafety either. Lobbyists would absolutely tell them which computer languages were memory safe, MIT be damned.