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The term "memory safety" is much older than Rust and very common, the "unsafe" keyword is based on that existing concept and I think that consistency is the rig
by alpaca128 4y ago
The term "memory safety" is much older than Rust and very common, the "unsafe" keyword is based on that existing concept and I think that consistency is the right choice here. I also don't have the impression that this is communicated in a way that leads to confusion with "correctness".
What alternative name would you prefer to express the collection of memory safety features in programming languages?