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codehero • today at 1:29 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

"Type systems are hard!" As hard as its safety is pushed on us, not even Rust is free from hand waving.


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ahartmetz • today at 1:36 PM

At least Rust has a chance to be largely correct because it has much greater effort per amount of code (in the compiler) invested into it than most any application code.

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doodpants • today at 1:45 PM

I mean, Rust's whole shtick is safety, so that's really the only thing there is to "push" about the language.

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caaqil • today at 1:38 PM

> not even Rust is free from hand waving.

It is moral though, so who cares really.