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Re:So You Want to Rust the Linux Kernel? by masklinn on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @03:49AM (#28837169)
> Its also important to note that for most systems security critical memory safety is a REALLY big deal, but safety from crashes due to data races is generally not a big deal.

It must be noted, though, that data races can lead to memory safety issues in languages which are otherwise free of them, Go being a prime example of that: the built-in hashmap is not thread-safe, and does exhibit memory corruption issues under unprotected concurrent writes and accesses (only concurrent unprotected reads are OK).

There is a “best effort detection” of concurrent misuse, but it’s just that.

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