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It was best as a silly toy language in the 1990's... (reddthat.com)
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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

No.

By that same logic, memory safety issues in C/C++ don’t make them bad programming languages.

If you’re worried about it, like you’re accepting input from the user, sanitize it.

if (typeof userProvidedData !== "string") {
  throw new Error("Only works on strings.");
}

Better yet, put that in a function called assertString.