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msbarnett on Dec 29, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust is mostly safety

There was nothing interesting in what he was trying to say.

Yes, no programming language perfectly eliminates all classes of unsafety. But that's no reason to let the perfect be the enemy of the good! "The issue with safety is..." no issue at all. Being safe in a bunch of problem domains (Rust) is still strictly better than being safe in very few if any of them (C).

braveo on Dec 30, 2016 [–]

So you did it on purpose. That just makes you a bad actor in the conversation.

msbarnett on Dec 30, 2016 | | [–]

I am not whoever you imagine you're responding to (rkrzr, I guess)

jibalt on Jan 9, 2017 | | [–]

No, that's you.

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