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Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust by LinusU on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @10:39AM (#48023116)
Memory safety has nothing to do with memory leaks, and it's perfectly valid to leak memory in Rust?

e.g. `Box::leak(Box::new( ... ))`

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Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust by nicoburns on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @10:44AM (#48023205)
Memory safety doesn't help too much here, but "RAII" (automatically dropping values when they go out of scope) does.
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Re:Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust by satvikpendem on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:17AM (#48032888)
Generally it's automatically dropped unless you go out of your way to use the leak function, which most software doesn't do.
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