Memory Safety Absolutists
# Summary
A new tool called Fil-C enables C and C++ code to achieve memory safety by combining garbage collection and pointer tracking, prompting Zig's author to announce a similar compilation mode. However, the article argues that criticism of Rust from Fil-C and Zig developers appears disingenuous, as they dismiss Rust as unsafe due to its `unsafe` keyword while promoting their own approaches—despite genuine memory safety advocates benefiting from having multiple viable solutions to the problem.
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