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No, they used a language where the preferred way to share memory is raw pointers. That is the problem.

Every language has a preferred way to deal with things. In C, it's raw pointers, which are very error prone. Other languages have something better. For example, if you were to implement custom allocator in C#, would you return raw pointer? Or maybe base array + offset pair? Of course not, you'd choose a Span or Memory, and those are not prone to buffer overruns.

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