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Instead of bloating the base language for this, a trusted entity could simply fork those libraries, vet them, and repackage into some "blessed lib" that people like you can use in peace. In fact, the level of trust needed to develop safe libraries is less than developing language features.


That's basically what Boost[1] brought to C++.

[1]: https://www.boost.org/




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