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Re:Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to... by iknowstuff on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:48AM (#16392657)
I haven't studied this extensively, but Mozilla made the following claim:

>Mozilla made two previous attempts to parallelize its style system in C++, and both of them failed. But Rust’s fearless concurrency has made parallelism practical! https://blog.rust-lang.org/2017/11/14/Fearless-Concurrency-I...

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Re:Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to... by ksk on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:22PM (#16394489)
Right, I just wanted to examine it in the 'proof is in the pudding' sense where if Rust is as good as people claim, then certain types of bugs would be entirely eliminated. I'm usually weary of such claims :)
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