"type-safe" meaning in English

See type-safe in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more type-safe [comparative], most type-safe [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} type-safe (comparative more type-safe, superlative most type-safe)
  1. (programming) Not susceptible to the class of programming errors that could lead to items of one data type being incorrectly treated as another type. Categories (topical): Programming

Alternative forms

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