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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by jeroenhd on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @02:42AM (#47944887)
Nobody believes Rust programs are but free, though. Rust never promised that. It doesn't even promise memory safety, it only promises memory safety if you restrict yourself to safe APIs which simply isn't always possible.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by Galanwe on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:14AM (#47945088)
> it only promises memory safety if you restrict yourself to safe APIs which simply isn't always possible.

Less than that actually, considering Rust has its own definition of what "safe" means.

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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by user_of_the_wek on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:25AM (#47945156)
Ah, the Dwarf Fortress approach :)

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/DF2014:Fun&redirect=no

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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by bcjdjsndon on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @10:37AM (#47949069)
The NSA believe it's a memory safe language.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by compass_copium on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:44PM (#47951797)
Or... the NSA wants you to think the NSA believes that rust is a memory safe language.
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Re:Bugs Rust Won't Catch by kibwen on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:18PM (#47953057)
Or... the NSA wants you to think that the NSA wants you to think that the NSA believes that Rust is a memory-safe language, so that everyone who distrusts the NSA keeps using C.
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