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You comment on this subject regularly in this way, but opinions do vary. Rob Pike says Go is not purely memory safe under concurrency. I as someone who has written multiple languages would describe it as "memory safe except for a pointer-skew hole undermining concurrency" or maybe say "race-free Go is memory-safe".

Seeing a correctness issue that makes Go not memory safe in some circumstances warrants questioning whether it is memory safe. On balance, you might say it is, but to constantly tell people they are wrong for saying otherwise is policing a shared term.

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