Not to be that guy who comes to Rust’s defense whenever Go is mentioned, but... Rust protects from a much larger class of errors than just memory safety. For instance, it is impossible to invalidate an iterator while iterating over it, refer to an unset or invalid value, inadvertently merely shallow copy a variable, or forget to lock/unlock a mutex.
I like Rust, but I think this post is unfairly downvoted. Rustaceans often annoyingly point out that "you can't use super-common-footgun X with Rust!" which, while true, they also omit the compromises made are immense (frankly, compiler performance is one of them).
They are uncommon in many languages though that don't require Rust's type system, such as functional languages that simply pass values around and nothing else.
Nah, bringing out this argument in any thread that dares to mention whatever the commenter dislikes is just plain old off-topic. Go threads get people complaining. Rust threads get people complaining. The complaining is not a great addition to the discussion.
