Comment by tptacek

It's easy to demonstrate contrived abuses of Go concurrency that break memory safety, but despite the enormous popularity of the language, actual shipping vulnerabilities --- mistakes in concurrency, not deliberately-engineered pathological cases, that yield attacker-controlled control over memory --- are basically nonexistent (I can't think of a single one; there must be one somewhere!).

Basically this is about as credible an argument as claiming that Rust isn't memory safe because its libraries have so much `unsafe` code. And that claim: not super credible.

Basically, the takeaway in both cases is that it's not safe to allow an attacker to write code for you in the language. But everybody assumes that's the case anyways, because it's the case with virtually every other language (with one very notable, fraught, and well-understood exception), too.