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Re:Writing a JPEG Decoder in Rust – Part 2: Implementation I by pcwalton on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:15PM (#12321610)
"Rust: where resources are unlimited and aborting when you run out of them is okay"

I'd change "Rust" to "safe programming" here, but OK.

There have been lots of fun security vulnerabilities coming from programs trying to handle OOM gracefully. e.g. SpiderMonkey: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982957, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730415

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