[InCom-0]

This is true ... except that Rust doesn't actually do any better in that regard.

Rust solves 1 category of problems in a way that is not without its costs and other consequences. That is it. There are projects where this is very important, there are other projects where its virtually useless and the consequences just get in the way. It is not magic. It doesn't make anything actually 'safe'.

[feelamee]

sure, but don't forget that rust gives us also a nice tooling, functional syntax sugar like pattern matching, enums, monads; and other more or less useful things like explicit lifetimes

[InCom-0]

Of course. This is kind of to be expected as it has the benefit of hindsight of 25+ years. It is infinitely easier to design better things with all the accumulated experience and know-how of what works and what doesn't under your belt. It would have been truly horrifying if that had not been the case.

That being said, Rust is really about lifetimes. That's the big ticket selling point. My point above was that 1) it isn't a silver bullet and 2) it can be a real hindrance is many applications.

[flohofwoe]

Tbh, only a mother can love Rust's syntax. It has even more "punctuation" than C++.

[dlahoda]

what is this 1 category?