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That's a matter of how policy is set. You can set it to on or off for a particular function, too. The point is that language offers sound spatial safety just as much as Rust does (and both allow you to turn it on or off in particular pieces of code).


Defaults and ecosystem approach matter a lot, though.

The whole Rust ecosystem is heavily biased towards prioritising memory safety and "safe by construction" .

This is evident in the standard library, in how crates approach API design, what the compilation defaults are, ...

In 6+ years of using Rust the only time I had to deal with segfaults was when working on low level wrappers around C code or JIT compilation.

Zig has some very interesting features, but the way they approach language and API design leaves a lot of surface area that makes mistakes easy.




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