Java doesn’t prevent memory leaks either. Java will happily allocate up until an OOM. If an object is live, it will not be garbage collected. In fact Java will

Java doesn’t prevent memory leaks either. Java will happily allocate up until an OOM. If an object is live, it will not be garbage collected. In fact Java will leak memory over FFI boundaries as well. Rust is memory safe, but like many languages it is not leak safe. It is possible in Rust to tell it to leak memory, but that’s for special cases. To state this another way, memory leaks are different from memory safety.