So many ways it's hard to list them. Better tooling, type system, libraries, language features, compile-time error checking.
I'm a bit surprised that you are surprised by this. I sometimes think Rust emphasizes memory safety too much - like some people hear it and just think Rust is C but with memory safety. Maybe that's why you're surprised?
Memory safety is a huge deal - not just for security but also because memory errors are the worst kind of bug to debug. If I never have to a memory safety bug that corrupts some data but only in release mode... Those bugs take an enormous amount of time to deal with.
But Rust is really a great modern language that takes all the best ideas from ML and C, and adds memory safety.
(Actually multithreading bugs might be slightly worse but Rust can help there too!)
I'm a bit surprised that you are surprised by this. I sometimes think Rust emphasizes memory safety too much - like some people hear it and just think Rust is C but with memory safety. Maybe that's why you're surprised?
Memory safety is a huge deal - not just for security but also because memory errors are the worst kind of bug to debug. If I never have to a memory safety bug that corrupts some data but only in release mode... Those bugs take an enormous amount of time to deal with.
But Rust is really a great modern language that takes all the best ideas from ML and C, and adds memory safety.
(Actually multithreading bugs might be slightly worse but Rust can help there too!)