For some categories of applications, or even components of applications, the inability to meet a deadline in handling an event is a safety violation in the cate

For some categories of applications, or even components of applications, the inability to meet a deadline in handling an event is a safety violation in the category of "or else people could die". I mentioned the halting problem instead since it's close enough to those requirements for an HN comment. Rust has nothing special to say about that definition of safety, except that it thinks it has a better model for avoiding certain kinds of memory bugs that could contribute to those issues. Given that, I can see that "safe language" as a concept can be confusing and even leave engineers a little unprepared for unexpected categories of bugs. Anyway, I brought up the halting problem to illustrate. I'm sure there are other illustrations you can substitute regardless of your opinion on the halting problem.