I'm not even that good at writing Rust and even I recognize that countless libs I'm using are written in a way, with Rust types, that prevent serious mis-use. In ways that would be infeasible and unergonomic in other languages, or require internal library invariant assertions that are prone to bugs.

Sometimes the errors wind up being nasty, but I've also gotten better at trusting that the compiler is giving me helpful info, even if it's a huge message. And usually those errors indicate some library invariant that I've missed that the type system is enforcing.

yes, hence my comment on SML

while it's nice that the rest of the world is slowly waking up to type systems functional programmers have been bleating on about for the past four decades

... having read through the first couple of pages of bc vulns: even a much stronger type system than rust provides wouldn't appear to help very much in this specific example

however if someone wants to rewrite OpenSSL in Rust that would be a massive massive improvement

> however if someone wants to rewrite OpenSSL in Rust

You mean rustls?

Lacking DTLS at this time, and probably a few other valuable things.