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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by Gibbon1 on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @03:49AM (#37045819)
I frankly don't understand why he doesn't realize that the borrow checker is just the thing to prevent all the bugs you can have with a file system implementation.
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Re:GNU/Hurd strikes back: How to use the legendary OS in a (... by Paul-Craft on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @04:20AM (#37046033)
All the bugs? I doubt that.

Many of the worst bugs (data loss and corruption)? Probably.

Having something like the Rust borrow checker around to make sure you don't make dumb mistakes is handy, to be sure. But, let's not oversell it as some kind of panacea. I bet I could write a FS in Rust with all kinds of bugs, and the borrow checker wouldn't be able to stop me.

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