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by rurban 3320 days ago
No. Technically that's why "safe" languages were invented. Rust is one of the worse examples of those, as you can hardly call Rust safe. Only Rust fanboys do so.

Pascal, ADA, LISP, ATS, Java, Go, D, pony and all of the lisp and functional languages are safe.
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steveklabnik 3319 days ago
> as you can hardly call Rust safe

Care to expand on that? I'm curious.

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rurban 3317 days ago
unsafe memory and unsafe concurrency. i will not expand further, because it will be downvoted by the rust fanboys.
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kibwen 3317 days ago
Even aside from preemptively complaining about downvotes, refusing to substantiate your claims is the quickest way to lose karma. :P
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steveklabnik 3317 days ago
Okay. If you find something isn't safe, in safe code, please file a bug. What you're asserting shouldn't be true.
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rurban 3316 days ago
Do you see the problem now? You have a whole chapter about unsafe, with 4 major cases. Stdlib is full of unsafe. And you don't even talk about unsafe threaded code. One of the biggest safety problems nowadays. Memory safety is solved since decades with GC. Concurrency safety also for a few years.
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