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Indeed, I’ve been certain that something that it’s not letting me do is safe, only to realise a bit later that actually it was right in a subtle way.

There are certainly some valid things that the compiler will forbid which you then need to work around instead, but by and large I trust the compiler to be right more than I trust myself.

(Bear in mind, still, that these sorts of arguments of Rust’s superiority in such things are frequently only applicable for comparisons with languages like C++; often they are the sorts of things that a managed language would not have a problem with, though also not infrequently it would lead to things like data race.)



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