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White House: Future Software Should Be Memory Safe
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Nothing, and certainly not Rust, is "perfectly" memory safe. You get closer with Haskell. At some point, you define what "good enough" is, and it's up to languages to provide tooling to either meet those standards (and be approved), or don't.
Granted, it'd be far harder for, say, Ruby to meet those proofs than a language like Rust, but the critical point is to have a defined standard of "good enough" for languages to work towards.
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