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what do you mean ? its safe if its been tested well.

It's a big if, and it's a hard to prove one has done it.

The best C++ pros make mistake all the time. Because it doesn't matter how much skill you got with a can of spray paint, if you do makeup with it, you will mess up from time to time.

I've mainly worked in embedded area, most bugs were missing logic / missing use case/ or just incorrect coding / handling / logic. Memory leaks were found early in the development phase. There's also lots of improvements in c++ when using pointers now. Are you telling me that a Rust code base with over 100 devs won't have any problems

> Are you telling me that a Rust code base with over 100 devs won't have any problems

If you've had 100 problems writing c++, rust will reduce 99 of them. No data races, no SEGFAULTS - yes its impossible, no pointer mathematics, no bad (nullptr) state of pointers and much much faster than c++. Just see the benchmarks here - https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/regexredux.htm...

Rust is 2.73 seconds and c++ is at 17 seconds LOL. C is ahead but not too much. ( 1 sec difference and who cares about a second when c++ is ....). Btw, have fun with your spray paint ;)

> Just see the benchmarks here …

But you only tell us about one of them!

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...

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