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The big problem with this piece is that it thinks it about the issue in binary terms (an occupational hazard for programmers!) The article states "The biggest
by codesections 8y ago
The big problem with this piece is that it thinks it about the issue in binary terms (an occupational hazard for programmers!)
The article states "The biggest Rust users I know are among the very best and most secure C programmers around. These were not the people writing unsafe code in C." This is essentially implying that there are two types of C programmers—those who write safe code, and those who write unsafe code ("good" and "bad" C programmers).
But that's just not how the world works; there's a continuum, not a binary divide. And someone who writes 95% safe code (or 99%, or 99.999%…) can still benefit greatly from a guarantee that 100% of their code is safe.