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I would articulate things differently.

Theoretically, memory-safety between Rust and managed languages is equivalent.

However, memory-safe languages (i.e. not Managed C++) running on a memory-safe VM have one more layer of defense in depth than Rust. This matters in case there is a bug in the compiler or any of the dependencies. Additional layers may include, for instance, Unix and containers.

"dynamic" languages, though? That's entirely orthogonal to memory-safety and not very good for general software safety.




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