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Is Rust really safer? It's memory safe, but you can still have all the other fuck ups and vulnerabilities that other apps have.


How many times are we going to have this discussion?

> ~70% of the vulnerabilities Microsoft assigns a CVE each year continue to be memory safety issues

https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2019/07/16/a-proactive-appro...

There are similar reports from other organizations.


The logical structure of your statement is: Are five apples and two oranges really more food than two oranges? You have apples, but you still only have two oranges.


> safer

For any reasonable definition of "safer", yes. 100% safe? no.




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