Wasm3 entering a minimal maintenance phase

  > To prove a point, I spent an hour reading his opensource project
  > and found several resource leaks

Sounds like some interesting case studies. Could you share some?

  > > if I find [… typo words(?) omitted … ] a leak in the code I
  > > usually refactor to make the correctness more obvious.

I should rewrite this as - if I find a leak that I accidentally introduced, I will refactor in the process of correcting it, to make the mistake harder to repeat and the correctness easier to confirm.

There are non-language mechanisms that help code run safely, like Wasm, which is a sandbox. Also msan and asan should be used more.

Thinking that changing the language is the right way to fix all the problems you mentioned still seems like a premature assumption. The fact that 100% perfection is worth pursuing at all costs is theoretical and you could be losing things more valuable in the process - e.g. FFI bindings suck, and the added fragmentation in having so many languages in the craft is a pernicious cost with a multitude of aspects to it.

Agreed, and even if Russia was "content" to "only" take the territory they currently have occupied, and Putin could somehow sell this to his population as a "victory" ... the long term situation would be a nightmare.

They would not stop undermining the independence of Ukraine, and would in fact be emboldened to do more. There would be no "peace", there'd be hybrid warfare incursions constantly, they'd start crowing about Russian language rights even more, and use it as a justification for meddling probably at an even more intense level than before. Every election would be undermined, people assassinated, bought off, manipulated.

Remember Russia last year changed its constitution to include Ukrainian land in its borders. Lands which it currently doesn't even occupy.

They have spent the last 10 years selling their population on the line that Ukrainians were doing some sort of genocide on the population in the Donbas -- so just imagine if Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts were split in two, as they are now?

Official Russian ideology is Russo-supremacist, with an Orthodox Christian nationalist veneer. This is not the USSR era, with its "brotherhood of peoples" propaganda. Its right wing nationalist, and imperialist on that basis, and has shown itself willing to attempt to enforce this.

Eventually they'd either get their way and turn Ukraine back into a client state, or invade again.

Russia needs to be pushed back, its defense lines broken and its trade relationships properly severed, its energy exports denied access to the west until a substantial foreign policy shift is made by its leadership.

Oh, and removed from the UN security council or the security council just abolished.

Yeah. Considering the Soviets had just killed millions of Ukrainians in the Holodomar when WWII started, I don't think from the Ukrainian perspective either group invading Ukraine at the time was the 'good side'. Many Ukrainians thought siding with Germany was their best chance to gain an independent country after the war. Unfortunately, we know now that the Nazis were never going to let that happen, and it did lead a lot of Ukrainians to collaborate with the Nazis in committing terrible atrocities. But it was a much more complicated situation than that they fought for the bad side. "Slava Ukraini" reflects their desire then and now for independent self rule, not any moral failings during WWII.

Your own link.

Bandera remains a highly controversial figure in Ukraine.[9] Many Ukrainians hail him as a role model hero,[10][11] or as a martyred liberation fighter,[12] while other Ukrainians, particularly in the south and east, condemn him as a fascist,[13] or Nazi collaborator,[10] whose followers, called Banderites, were responsible for massacres of Polish and Jewish civilians during World War II.[14][15] On 22 January 2010, Viktor Yushchenko, the then president of Ukraine, awarded Bandera the posthumous title of Hero of Ukraine, which was widely condemned. The award was subsequently annulled in 2011 given that Stepan Bandera was never a Ukrainian citizen.[16] Bandera gained further prominence following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.[17][18][19]

Heroyam Slava.

Agree awful!