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Absolutely. The problem is, most programmers are mediocre. So sadly the protection of stupid people tends to take cultural precedence.
Please show me a single "good" programmer who is working with C/C++ and hasn't had a single memory bugs in a decade.
Check out Eskil Steenberg. He's mostly a game dev, but he has some really good talks.
And you know with 100% certainty he hasn't had a single memory bug in his last decade of developing?
He has written his own libraries and programs to ensure these things don't happen.
What you people need to understand is that these problems have been solved before Rust. They just weren't baked into the language. And so people made mistakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvkn9Xz-xks
I'm not saying Rust is not always the better choice. Of course not. I'm just oh-so-weary of this rewrite-the-world zealotry a lot of people have about it.
You mean grown-ups?
No, children.
People who are about memory safety are children? Bruh.
That is very much not what I said, bruh.