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andygrove on July 17, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Ar...

"But claiming that "X software is written in Y language/framework" says nothing about efficiency or safety"

Except for the fact that it does in some cases. Rust is definitely safer than C or C++ (unless the Rust code is explicitly using the unsafe keyword).

geezerjay on July 17, 2019 [3 more]

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andygrove on July 17, 2019 | | [–]

I'm sensing that you are not familiar with Rust and the safety that it introduces compared to C/C++.

jb1991 on July 17, 2019 | | [–]

Some things definitely do become magically safe when the language you are using tightly restricts you from doing very common and unsafe things!

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