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Why Rust or Zig and not C?

Better for the author's resume, if they want to make it hype driven.

Also some nebulous "being more secure". Never mind that this tool does not have elevated privileges. You gotta watch out for those remote root exploits even for a local only app, man.

I mean you could extract an archive you've downloaded to your filesystem and said archive could have funky file names and then you use this tool..

But I suppose it's not a very likely bug to have in this kind of tool.

Or “they” could enter your house at 2 am, drug you and hit you with a $5 wrench until they get access to your files :)

Never understood this line of thought. Not everything needs to be super secure. Not everything is going to be an attack vector. No one is going to deploy this onto a production server where this program specifically is going to be the attack vector.

Memory safety is cool and all, but a program that effectively sums a bunch of numbers together isn't going to cause issues. Worst case the program segfaults

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