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The Foreign Function Interface situation is best understood, I think - thank you, @Gankra ! - by reading this: https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

... but more generally Rust gives you a set of guardrails that obviate entire classes of sometimes sec-critical errors, and the error messages they give you during the development process are just generally wildy more helpful and humane than you see in most other languages.