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Re:Several months in the life of Project Zero – Part 1: The ... by steveklabnik on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @03:53PM (#22312690)
If I had to summarize it, it would be:

> C-style programming in C++ is also a bad sign; the IOBuffer design pattern with separate storage of buffers and their sizes is inherently dangerous.

Rust has "slices", which store a pointer and a length together, so they cannot get out of sync like this.

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