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Re:Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium by Quekid5 on Saturday November 02, 2019 @11:20AM (#21428165)
Not to be argumentative, honestly, that sound pretty laughable if you don't have an equivalent of an algebraic effect system (or similar).

A "function" in Rust can do a whole bunch of stuff that is not signaled by its type signature.

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Re:Chrome 0-day exploit used in Operation WizardOpium by nicoburns on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:04PM (#21429074)
Mutability / immutability is in the function signatures, and that goes a long way. It's not as good as an effect system of course. But along with global variables barely being a thing in Rust, it goes a long way to cutting out the common course of bugs.
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