Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use?

Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by p0nce on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:26PM (#29664780)

Quoting the article:

> those who [used the GC] required only about a third as much time (4 hours vs. 12 hours).

Surely you can devote a chunk of your newfounded time to find use-after-free bugs.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by adgjlsfhk1 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:36PM (#29664893)

If that worked, people wouldn't still be finding use after free bugs in commonly used C libraries. The whole reason to use Rust is that it turns most of C's UB into compile time errors so that your code isn't horribly broken in the first place.

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Re:Does the Bronze Garbage Collector Make Rust Easier to Use? by notriddle on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:40PM (#29664945)

I don't know how to find use-after-free bugs in arbitrary code, no matter how much time I devote to the task. I just can't keep enough state in my head at once.

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