I write art/music apps where nobody dies if it crashes in the field. But my perspective is this: because I'm an indie developer, I will get more hate mail and nasty reviews from people when they lose their work because my app crashed (or even if they don't lose their work!). I'd like to avoid said hate mail, and the nasty reviews hurt my business. I think developers at companies are more insulated from the customer and don't think about this as much.
> I don’t buy into the rhetoric that memory safety solves everything
I haven’t heard that rhetoric, only that memory safety is a really good thing. If I can pay up front with some static analysis and eliminate entire classes of bugs, that’s just such a great thing, even if it doesn’t solve everything.
I want to like and use Odin, because the guy behind it seems really cool, and it’s pretty indie, like zig. But the strong guarantees of rust are just so compelling.
Doesn’t matter who came first, you can’t generate a bunch of smoke and noise. I’m sure Austin has a noise ordinance. Easy solution is to move the event to a better location.