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Re:F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:18AM (#26202090)
Use-after-free is

a) probably the least important class of bugs for this sort of thing

b) adequately solved with the existing C++ language features anyways.

So what would be the point of rewriting in Rust?

(Assume the people writing it aready have the C++ knowledge and tooling ready.)

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Re:F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework by pjmlp on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:47AM (#26202975)
c) assuming they have ISO C++ minutiae level of language understanding,

https://herbsutter.com/2020/02/17/move-simply/

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Re:F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework by hctaw on Saturday February 20, 2021 @01:36AM (#26202143)
What about iterator invalidation or multiple mutable aliasing in concurrent code
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Re:F’: Flight Software and Embedded Systems Framework by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:45AM (#26204039)
Iterator invalidation is a kind of use-after-free.

Mutating aliased objects is, of course, usually the desired outcome and not a bug. It becomes a bug when your program's concurrency logic is not thought through, and there are no easy solutions here.

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