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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by z3t4 on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:37AM (#12975235)
It's very easy to spot the error here, compared to for example a segfault.
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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by lmm on Thursday November 17, 2016 @06:42AM (#12976531)
That's damning with faint praise if I ever heard it. (And it's not even true; undefined tends to propagate further, the segfault usually happens closer to the actual error. Not that I'm defending languages that segfault by any means)
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Re:Rust and the Future of Systems Programming [video] by kaoD on Thursday November 17, 2016 @08:03AM (#12977046)
Not to mention a SEGFAULT in Rust is a bug in Rust the language/std, not your program (unless you're writing unsafe code, which is pretty much never).
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