Comment by paavohtl
4 years ago
If we include data race safety in the definition of memory safety (which it ultimately is), then Rust is safer than any commonly used garbage collected language with access to multithreading, including Swift, Java and C#.
This is a RESF trope. We do not include Rust's notion of data race safety in the definition of memory safety as it is used in security. Not all bugs are created equal.