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by OutOfHere 743 days ago
> Every programming language has parts like Rust’s unsafe.

This is a pretty weak argument. "Everyone else does it, so it's not wrong." If using this argument, Rust shouldn't even exist.

Rice's theorem seems handwavy in the real-world limitations of its restrictions. For the sake of argument, even Python is more memory-safe than unsafe Rust.