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Comment by ISV_Damocles

You're moving the goalposts. Your original post had zero mention of unsafe Rust. You have now latched onto this as somehow proving Rust is less safe than Python and Java despite also mentioning how Java also has unsafe APIs you can use, which nullifies even your moved goalposts.

Btw, Python also has unsafe APIs[1, 2, 3, 4] so this doesn't even differentiate these two languages from each other. Some of them are directly related to memory safety, and you don't even get an `unsafe` block to warn you to tread lightly while you're using them. Perhaps we should elevate Rust above Java and Python because of that?

[1]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/gc.html#gc.get_referrers

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html

[3]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/_thread.html

[4]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html#os.fork

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