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Comment by incrudible

> The advantages of a language that is memory safe in practice and also heavily favors correctness in general boosts productivity tenfold in the long term.

Does it though? There are many languages that fit this description, you would choose Rust if for some reason you also need good performance. However, if you heavily interop with C/C++ safety goes out the window anyway, and it probably never mattered much in the first place.

parent incrudible 2 years ago

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