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Re:Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex... by kibwen on Saturday April 01, 2017 @06:01PM (#14014415)
I don't think this comment warrants the downvotes it's receiving, as it's entirely reasonable to conflate panics with unsafety if one is only used to "crashing" in the context of C. It's a misconception that we get relatively frequently, so we may just need to make sure this is highlighted in our official tutorials.
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Re:Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex... by carols10cents on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:24PM (#14015410)
We have a whole chapter on error handling in the second edition of The Rust Programming Language[1] that goes into these issues in detail. When we revise chapter 1 (we're doing that chapter last), we're planning on defining what Rust means by "safe".

[1] - http://rust-lang.github.io/book/second-edition/ch09-00-error...

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Re:Fuzzing is magic – Or how I found a panic in Rust's regex... by j1f4 on Saturday April 01, 2017 @10:34PM (#14015439)
> reasonable to conflate panics with unsafety if one is only used to "crashing" in the context of C.

I suppose it's possible that's what generates most instances of this question, but I had the same question when I was first introduced to Rust and it came from a different root.

I had been reading about Erlang, and from that context I expected "safety" to be about avoiding system downtime (e.g. gracefully handling failed asserts) as much as anything.

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