Comment by jeroenhd
14 days ago
Nobody believes Rust programs are but free, though. Rust never promised that. It doesn't even promise memory safety, it only promises memory safety if you restrict yourself to safe APIs which simply isn't always possible.
> it only promises memory safety if you restrict yourself to safe APIs which simply isn't always possible.
Less than that actually, considering Rust has its own definition of what "safe" means.
Ah, the Dwarf Fortress approach :)
https://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Fun&redirect=no
The NSA believe it's a memory safe language.
Or... the NSA wants you to think the NSA believes that rust is a memory safe language.
Or... the NSA wants you to think that the NSA wants you to think that the NSA believes that Rust is a memory-safe language, so that everyone who distrusts the NSA keeps using C.