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Rust is a programming language. Nothing more, nothing less. It is a tool. If I like the typing and macro systems used by Rust, but I do not care in the slightest about “memory safety” I can write my dirty, filthy ‘unsafe’ C style code with casts, and raw pointers, and multiple mutable references in a giant unsafe block and get a compiled binary out of rustc. And if I use the above style of coding to write a neat CLI tool and offer the code as open source on Github, so be it. What the purported ‘Rust community’ thinks the language professes doesn’t mean a thing. Use the tool or don’t.

I don’t want to come as negative toward Rust or developers using it, but there is a whole lot of using Rust’s ‘security’ focus/features to say the Actix developer needed to do things a certain way. He wrote he, he could do whatever the hell he wanted.