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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory by danarmak on Thursday September 22, 2016 @12:49PM (#12558162)
The crucial difference is between a policy, which people can not follow (and you might not catch them), and a language or compiler restriction, which people can't work around without doing something drastic like shelling out to a new process, which you can catch (in a well built language).
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Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory by danarmak on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:56PM (#12560306)
Is the beauty you see in C inseparable from its unsafety? Are the unsafe parts that other languages don't have the most beautiful ones?

There's a big difference between arguing for safety and arguing for Rust specifically. Everyone likes some languages and dislikes others. Can you design a safe(r) language that you would consider to be beautiful?

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