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Comment by Spivak

12 hours ago

I mean I get the sentiment but Rust won't save you against division by zero, it'll just panic at runtime like every other language.

From a security perspective, panic at runtime is not that bad for security. Much better than continuing to run with undefined behavior. If someone sends a malformed video in and it crashes the ffmpeg process you can just log it and restart it. Vs potentially exploiting the system.