Re:Cloudflare outage should not have happened
by burntsushi on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @10:10PM
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Nope. Because you've completely mischaracterized not only the actual problem here, but the value proposition of Rust. You're tilting at windmills.
Nobody credible has ever said that Rust will fix all your problems 100% of the time. If that's what you inferred was being sold based on random HN commentary, then you probably want to revisit how you absorb information.
Rust has always been about reducing bugs, with a specific focus on bugs as a result of undefined behavior. It has never, isn't and will never be able to eliminate all bugs. At minimum, you need formal methods for that.
Rust programs can and will have bugs as a result of undefined behavior. The value proposition is that their incidence should be markedly lower than programs written in C or C++ (i.e., implementations of languages that are memory unsafe by default).
Nobody credible has ever said that Rust will fix all your problems 100% of the time. If that's what you inferred was being sold based on random HN commentary, then you probably want to revisit how you absorb information.
Rust has always been about reducing bugs, with a specific focus on bugs as a result of undefined behavior. It has never, isn't and will never be able to eliminate all bugs. At minimum, you need formal methods for that.
Rust programs can and will have bugs as a result of undefined behavior. The value proposition is that their incidence should be markedly lower than programs written in C or C++ (i.e., implementations of languages that are memory unsafe by default).