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> features that trade that extra 1% of safety for 90% extra learning curve.

I remember both MS and goog having talks about real-world safety issues in the range of 50% of cases were caused by things that safe rust doesn't allow (use after free, dangling pointers, double free, etc). The fact that even goog uses it, while also developing go (another great language with great practical applications) is telling imo.




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