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Comment by RussianCow

6 hours ago

Borrow checker aside, I would like to think that its type system inherently makes it safer than a language like C.

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pjmlp  17 minutes ago

Even Modula-2 (1978) type system is safer than C.

solyin  6 hours ago

You can write bad unsafe code in any language. Rust has a convenient keyword for that. C++ has types.

  • afiori  8 minutes ago

    unsafe rust is still typed orders of magnitude better than C

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