[tptacek]

Go is absolutely memory safe in the sense used by Prossimo and software security. It's not "safe" in an academic sense used by almost nobody except message board language warriors.

[pjmlp]

Usually it is Rust message board language warriors.

Which also overlook how Rust type system can be subverted to actually allow for data races, with some help of linker scripts and OS IPC primitives.