young man yells at the cloud on Nostr: I know Rust has an extremely strict compiler and is designed from the ground up for ...
I know Rust has an extremely strict compiler and is designed from the ground up for memory safety, but what evidence is there for it being *truly* bulletproof in that regard? I feel like a lot of people read the phrase "written in Rust" and see "immune to exploits," but that certainly isn't the case, right? How safe is Rust, really? Obviously it's no contest if you're comparing to like, C++ or Java or whatever else, but is it really the end-all-be-all of secure low-level programming?
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