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Comment by selkin

5 days ago

You could write a lot of bugs in Rust. Or in any memory-safe language. Just not some bugs. It's just that starting a non-toy project using a non-safe language today is really in the "you could, but didn't stop think if you should" category.

Fair enough, and I do appreciate Rust's contributions to the spectrum of programming language considerations. Personally I'd like to become a Zig guy, though.

There's also Fil-C BTW, and in normal C++ there are GCC or Clang (I forget which) extensions for detecting threading issues, even good old Valgrind is under-appreciated and under-used. In general one wants to adopt best practices and be proactive, rather than relying on the language to solve all problems (of course).