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Re:Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, an... by andygrove on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:40AM (#20457342)
"But claiming that "X software is written in Y language/framework" says nothing about efficiency or safety"

Except for the fact that it does in some cases. Rust is definitely safer than C or C++ (unless the Rust code is explicitly using the unsafe keyword).

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Re:Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, an... by andygrove on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:51AM (#20457405)
I'm sensing that you are not familiar with Rust and the safety that it introduces compared to C/C++.
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Re:Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, an... by hellofunk on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @03:57AM (#20457428)
Some things definitely do become magically safe when the language you are using tightly restricts you from doing very common and unsafe things!
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