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by Quekid5 1938 days ago
We can pretty much also conclude (given data on CVEs, etc.) that -- in practice -- programmers either aren't following that process or it doesn't have enough of an impact to actually get rid of memory errors of the kind Rust protects completely against.

(Caveat: Obviously 'unsafe' is relevant to this discussion, but at least you only have very small areas of code you need to check extra carefully.)