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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by gsnedders on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @11:59AM (#15705259)
> there is no way a developer can write a code in Rust that causes segfaults ( atleast language promises that ).

Well, you can very easily: write bad code in unsafe blocks.

That said, your badness is contained within unsafe blocks, so hopefully you have much less code to closely review.

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Re:Ask HN: Firefox vs. Chrome security by rammy1234 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @02:08PM (#15706782)
right, it is well known to the developers what to look for when we see something wrong. it doesnt crash randomly, it cries out loud when it fails so we know what is happening and manage it better.
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