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Memory Safety Absolutists
A critique of what the author calls 'memory safety absolutists' — developers who argue Rust is unsafe because of its unsafe escape hatch, while promoting Fil-C or Zig's new fil compilation mode as the only truly memory-safe alternatives. The author argues this framing ignores real-world trade-offs: Fil-C introduces GC, ABI incompatibility, and potential performance overhead, making it unsuitable for many programs where Rust excels. Citing Android's data showing Rust achieves ~0.2 memory safety vulnerabilities per million lines of code versus ~1,000 for C/C++, the author contends Rust is pragmatically very safe. The post calls out apparent double standards among critics who attack Rust's safety record while tolerating unsafe C/C++ and non-fil Zig code.
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