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		taeric on March 15, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scala Native v0.1 My point is that safety or otherwise of the target language is just not relevant. Even C has compile errors if you use the wrong type for an operation. Assembly largely does not. Taken to the extreme, any language ultimately goes down to machine code. So if it was a relevant fact, it would be relevant for all languages.

pjmlp on March 15, 2017 [–]

> Even C has compile errors if you use the wrong type for an operation. Assembly largely does not.

There are strong typed assemblers, e.g. IBM i.

Also Assemblers don't remove code under your feet, like optimizing C compilers with their UB tricks happen to do, introducing security bugs.

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