>You get safe programming for “free” in Rust. Not really. Rust will tell you your program is unsafe at compile time, whereas c will tell you at runtime. The ma

>You get safe programming for “free” in Rust. Not really. Rust will tell you your program is unsafe at compile time, whereas c will tell you at runtime. The major difference is that c sometimes won't tell you about an unsafe program, whereas rust will call perfectly safe programs unsafe. Note that for a beginner, the former is vastly preferable, because it allows them to iterate much faster. It doesn't matter if your code is buggy if you throw it away, and it doesn't matter if your code has security bugs if it will never be worth hacking.