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Except Rust? We can't ignore the fact that Rust has shown that memory safety is not incompatible with low-level semantics. (Of course, Ada, Cyclone, CCured, etc
by pcwalton 4y ago
Except Rust? We can't ignore the fact that Rust has shown that memory safety is not incompatible with low-level semantics. (Of course, Ada, Cyclone, CCured, etc. showed this much earlier than Rust.)
- skohan 4y agoZig has very different goals than Rust. The explicit theory of the language is that Rust's approach to memory safety creates costly tradeoffs which are not needed for all use-cases. It is very much not the consensus that memory safety is a requirement for any modern language. Asserting that it should be a requirement is an extreme position.