Rust vs C Pitfalls

Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by EugeneOZ on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:57AM (#13269361)

GC is not about safety at all, sorry. I'm not going to start flamewar, but just to answer your question: https://www.google.com/#newwindow=1&q=null+pointer+exception

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by gravypod on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:03AM (#13270478)

You can't say NPEs are an example that Java is unsafe. The propegation is Nulls isn't Java's fault and Java's evolving currently to make use of Optionals as we speak to attempt to avoid this.

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Re:Rust vs C Pitfalls by EugeneOZ on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @09:05AM (#13270493)

I can say it.

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