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by tialaramex 893 days ago
Culture matters. "Culture eats strategy for breakfast". Rust has a safety culture. Yes it has a bunch of safety technology but the technology doesn't decide how things are used. It would be legal using the Rust compiler to implement the IndexMut trait on slices such that it just YOLOs like a C++ index. Rust doesn't do that, not because somehow the technology forbids it - it does not - but because culturally it's anathema to them.