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Ygg2yesterday at 8:49 PM1 replyview on HN

> The entire point is that being so absolutist is silly.

You're misinterpreting what Rust people are telling you.

- Rust is safe lang

- Nah, C is safe if you're good

- Rust evangelical gestures towards billions or CVEs brought on by overly-sure C programmers

- Yeah, well, a version of Rust was unsafe for few months ten years ago. Besides Zig prevents more bugs than C and is the successor

- Rust person points to Bun's abysmal record

- Stop being absolutist.

The issue is that in C or Zig few people can write mostly UB free code. In Rust anyone can write UB free code as long as they don't reach for unsafe.


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jmullyesterday at 11:20 PM

It seems odd to me to put this much effort into misunderstanding what people are saying. You just end up talking past everyone, essentially talking to no one about nothing.

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