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C++ creator rebuts White House warning (www.infoworld.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by seth@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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Python is memory safe? Can't you access/address memory with C bindings?

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[–] lordmauve@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

Rust has a lot going for it beyond just the safety thing: excellent package manager, powerful trait system and generics, helpful compiler errors.

The whole language is designed to help you avoid making the programming mistakes people tend to make, not just the borrow checker and memory safety.