alt Hacker NewsThe claim was runtime cost
> the competing language will have a runtime cost, which often is unacceptable.
The problem you now mention
> at the cost of developing time and workarounds overhead.
Also happens with plain c and the "pay attention" method.
> Also happens with plain c and the "pay attention" method.
not really
there are decades of well known practices to basically cover every possible scenario
the point is Rust doesn't allow to write certain kinds of code or use certain patterns
it's the cost of the boilerplate
it's not that it is hard, it's that it is tedious
and if we throw LLM at the problem, well, we're not talking about 100% safety anymore