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by xavxav 1586 days ago
Rust is used in production though at large companies: Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc... I would be highly surprised that the borrowchecker would be the reason code couldn't ship in the first place, once you get over the initial mental hurdles it's usually a non-issue.

Besides equivocating between a pervasively unsafe-by-default language and one with an explicit bounded opt-in is a little disingenuous. Time after time, it has been shown that even expert C developers cannot write memory safe C consistently, each line of code is a chance to blow up your entire app's security.