alt Hacker NewsNah. You’re assuming that the developer has some experience. The false assurance that the magic of Rust will protect the developer from himself/herself will lead that young developer to make worse decisions. An experienced developer typically has discernment, and has learned, rather painfully, that he/she can make serious errors in any language.
No. Rust is excellent for beginner programmers dipping their toes into systems programming for the first time. Imagine you have a million-line C codebase, and a brand-new junior hire. Are you going to unleash them on the codebase unsupervised? Hell no, you're going to need to watch them like a hawk and regularly slap their fingers in order to teach them what not to do. But I would gladly unleash a junior on a million-line Rust codebase, as long as I have a CI rule that flags any PRs that touches files containing the `unsafe` keyword. This frees up the junior to spend more time learning the business domain and less time worrying about bizarre memory errors.