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Mox is written in Go. What advantages does this provide in terms of performance and security compared to traditional email servers, which are often written in C?


No buffer overflows, no user-after-free and no double free issues. There is a garbage collector which stops the world here and there to cleanup, but for anything that is not constantly busy, like a small mail server, this is not noticeable.




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