Rust has fewer memory CVEs than C/C++ — but that's not the whole story. My analysis of what that number actually says, what it doesn't, and how to turn it into a real technical decision.
648 points on HN about bugs Rust doesn't prevent. I took the list, ran it against reproducible production-style examples, and found exactly what they promised wouldn't be there. Rust gives you memory safety, not logic safety — and that difference matters more than the community admits.
32 years in the dev trenches. Here I write what I learned, what I broke, and what nobody tells you in the tutorials.
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