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> I have never seen someone assert Rust is a 100% safe

Please copy and paste from my post where that's being asserted

> Its touted purely as a _memory_ safe language

Which is different from what was said... how?

> To claim otherwise is absurd and very telling of the writer's biases

To pretend that those claims were made is what's actually telling of biases.

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> How can Codex write fast-to-compile Rust code, do tell?? Do tell!

Because memory safety isn't just about data races. In fact data races are far from Rust's most innovative or important feature. They are a side-effect, the designers had a nice system and saw it can also prevent data-races, so they said "sure, why not".

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