Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by cozzyd on Friday June 03, 2022 @04:58PM
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> i dare you to find memory corruption in safe rust that isn't already on an issue tracker.
can't you just mess around with /proc/self/mem :)
Re:Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming
by steveklabnik on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:13PM
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That one was already reported to the tracker :)
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/32670
(To be clear, I’m not saying that there’s no issues that aren’t in the tracker yet. But there are a bunch of them that are. More will absolutely be found as time goes on, that’s just how these things are.)
i dare you to find memory corruption in safe rust that isn't already on an issue tracker.
> Saying that a language is either safe or unsafe implies that the "safe" language is actually safe while the "unsafe" language is completely deadly.
tell that to the people who got owned by https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i... , most likely human rights activists targeted by less-than-savory regimes. memory corruption bugs are so frequent that it is possible for nso group to sell to pretty much any regime, and not forced to be classified as top secret information.