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I've coded in Ada. Storage pools are not as safe as Rust's affine type system. For one it's a lot easier to leak memory with Ada, since they're mainly built off of reference counting.



Pedantic: memory leaks are memory-safe, despite generally being undesirable.


You're totally right, but yeah, I tend to roll it in to the same category since I consider the denial of service associated with memory leaks to be as bad as stricter memory unsafety. (And to be very pedantic I said 'memory management safety', not just 'memory safety').




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