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by mlindner 2240 days ago
> Rust absolutely does not have the ergonomics of any of those languages because it has lifetimes. They are things you don't worry about in those languages.

You have to worry about them in any non-garbage collected language. There's just no compiler that checks that you're doing it correctly and is the primary source of security bugs for most software.

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Understood. To be specific, they said Rust has the ergonomics of Python, Go, and Java, which are garbage collected languages. It does not strike me as realistic.