I appreciate this comment, because it demonstrates a solid approach to simplify the code. That said, regarding: > safe-language-trend-of-the-day. I agree tha

I appreciate this comment, because it demonstrates a solid approach to simplify the code. That said, regarding: > safe-language-trend-of-the-day. I agree that rust advocacy can sometimes be a bit misguided and over-enthusiastic - however how often is an out of bounds write not a bug (or a too clever by far hack)? We've had pretty efficient ways to deal with this in c like languages for a long time (eg Pascal, Ada). (c-like in the sense of being relatively low-overhead, close to the hardware wrt memory layout etc).