On: A case against security nihilism

[valenterry]

It's not like Rust were the only or even the best language in solving the problems you mentioned. It might be the best performance focused / low-level language though.

[vanviegen → valenterry]

It's not the best language for solving this type of problems? What (kind of) language would you say is even better for that?

[rurban → vanviegen]

Actually safe languages fOR example. Pony guarantees all three safeties, memory, type and concurrency, whilst in Rust it's only a plan, just not implementated. Stack overflows, type unsafety, dead locks. POSIX compatible stdlib.

Concurrent Pascal or Singularity also fit the bill, with actual operating systems being written in it.

[valenterry → vanviegen]

Any language that offers some kind of effect system that has support for brackets and cancelation, for example Haskell or Scala.

There isn't even specific language support necessary, it's on the library level.