> whole point of rust is that memory safety issues are never worth the cost I don’t think that it would be the point of rust — otherwise why not write Java, or

> whole point of rust is that memory safety issues are never worth the cost I don’t think that it would be the point of rust — otherwise why not write Java, or a litany of GCd languages instead? Rust is a low-level/systems programming language where you have more control over the program’s execution (e.g. no fat runtime), which is a necessity in some rare, niche, but important use cases.