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You mean memory-safe Rust is the default. Taking this default is not enough to write safety-critical software… but it’s enough to write a browser (in theory) o

• AlotOfReading 1y ago
  Unfortunately, no. "Memory safe rust" is a more general concept than "Safe Rust". "Safe rust" is a generally understood term for the subset of rust that's everything outside unsafe blocks. Here's an example where it's used in the language docs [0]. "Memory safe rust" also includes all the unsafe code that follows the language rules, which is ideally all of it. I can see how this would be confusing and probably should have been clarified with emphasis in the original comment. Safety in the sense of "safety critical" isn't a property any programming language can have on its own, so I wouldn't have intended that regardless. [0] https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/meet-safe-and-unsafe.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/meet-safe-and-unsafe.html