THANK YOU! I'm in the Go camp myself (largely because I speak Unix and with Pike being involved it was inevitable) but I've read a lot on Rust and have been pr

THANK YOU! I'm in the Go camp myself (largely because I speak Unix and with Pike being involved it was inevitable) but I've read a lot on Rust and have been procrastinating learning it for about two years now. It's a very interesting language. Has a lot of helpful constructs. I'm quite convinced it's a better systems language than C++. However, every time something about Rust or Heartbleed hits the net, people flock around and dream of a world of Rust where Bad Stuff can't happen because Rust doesn't let you write programs that do Bad Stuff. Indeed, Rust doesn't let you write C++-branded Bad Stuff in Rust. Real life, however, leads me to believe that Rust-branded Bad Stuff will be trivial to write in Rust, and it is not the panacea that everyone hopes it is. It won't just magically make systems programming better and safer. People somehow managed to have buffer overflows in firmware written in that hideous form of Pascal that had the length of the array as part of the type, so foo(int x[10]) only compiled if you passed it an array of ten ints. They'll manage to write shitty, unsafe code in Rust, too. Edit: > let alone free massages. If you know of a language with free massages please share that information with me because I definitely want to learn it :-). I'm not nitpicking, it's just such a funny typo!