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   Julio Di Egidio to Dan Cross   
   Re: Informal discussion: comp.lang.rust?   
   28 Jul 25 13:50:47   
   
   From: julio@diegidio.name   
      
   On 28/07/2025 13:37, Dan Cross wrote:   
      
   > 50 years of empirical evidence has shown that, sadly, this is   
   > just not true.  Even our best and brightest C programmers still   
   > regularly make mistakes that simply impossible to represent in   
   > Rust, along with other languages.   
      
   Conversely, that are things that cannot be represented in (e.g.)   
   Rust, plus the bugs are still potentially there, just now in the   
   Rust compiler and runtime itself...   
      
   IOW, the idea that programmers in general need to be baby-seated   
   instead of given control I find not just self-defeating but really   
   fallacious.   
      
   -Julio   
      
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