[andrewflnr]

Rust is not safer than Python in Rust's own terminology. It takes more work than in C, but you can write memory bugs in Rust, by design. Python will catch those damn near every time, and if it doesn't you file a bug. Sure, there's less serious classes of bugs that Rust is likely to catch, but that's not really safety except in a definition loosened to near uselessness.

[roblabla]

> you can write memory bugs in Rust, by design

Unless you're talking about unsafe rust, that's wrong. And if you ARE talking about unsafe rust, well you can do the same in Python.

I do agree that python and rust are both "memory-safe" languages. I'm not sure about the other kind of safety rust provides though: thread-safety. That's really where Rust shines: you can write concurrent program and be statically guaranteed to have no data-races. I'm not sure how this transposes in python.

[vvanders]

You can describe "safe" along different axes and python is not completely immune to memory issues. I guarantee that if you start using ctypes you'll manage it at some point.