WebAssembly lets applications write/read to NULL. Even if, by design, WASM prevents whole classes of vulnerabilities, that sounds like a regression over what all modern operating systems do, which has proven to prevent many bugs and exploitable vulnerabilities.
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I see that now. Should have thought of that
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Crashes on NULL pointers deref are extremely useful, even in high-level languages such as Go. Now, these become silent, with unpredictable side effects.
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