Re:The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
by AquilaFasciata on Monday July 21, 2025 @10:22AM
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> it manages to combine speed and low-level control with a high level of bug-resistance, more commonly referred to as safety.
This article didn't even make it 2 paragraphs before being incorrect. Safety isn't bug resistance - Safety is ensuring memory integrity. Bugs are still easy to write, they're just going to be logic bugs instead of use after frees, double frees, etc.
The first example of a function and access to fields misses point as well. If you just wanted to edit a field locally, you can do that without references. If you're sharing the struct around, then you don't want more than one mutable reference at a time anyway.
This article didn't even make it 2 paragraphs before being incorrect. Safety isn't bug resistance - Safety is ensuring memory integrity. Bugs are still easy to write, they're just going to be logic bugs instead of use after frees, double frees, etc.
The first example of a function and access to fields misses point as well. If you just wanted to edit a field locally, you can do that without references. If you're sharing the struct around, then you don't want more than one mutable reference at a time anyway.