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awesome_dude • yesterday at 9:05 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

People massively overestimate Rust's "safety" - it has a very nice approach to managing data races, and. that's it.

It still, like every other language/tool we have that shares state between threads, has race conditions, for example.


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RussianCow • today at 12:43 AM

Borrow checker aside, I would like to think that its type system inherently makes it safer than a language like C.

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vovavili • yesterday at 10:37 PM

That is a confidently incorrect assertion.

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