Lots of things are done that way but there is also plenty of software for which OOM safety is a critical component of memory safety. As you say, not every platf

Lots of things are done that way but there is also plenty of software for which OOM safety is a critical component of memory safety. As you say, not every platform is Linux, and if Rust will be moving towards OOM safety as a global default and making this explicit throughout the std lib, then I think we are both in agreement.