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by pjmlp 1422 days ago
Yes, when they care about data consistency in distributed systems.

Maybe many Rust devs don't care.

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So what is your point? You’re changing the goal posts on safety and it’s a pointless reductive argument.

Even if we account for everything, solar storms will eventually flip bits unexpectedly. Does that make Rust’s guarantees worthless?

The goal posts stay on the same place. There are ways towards data corruption where Rust's fearsome concurrency is of no help.