Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by dns_snek on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:44PM
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by terminalcommand on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:07PM
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No, you are wrong. Rust compiler bug uncovered this month was aboıt memory safety: https://www.penligent.ai/hackinglabs/rust-borrow-checker-bug....
Basically, the borrow checker allowed writing memory unsafe programs without using the keyword unsafe.
Compilers for C, C++ etc. are well established but Rust is a relatively new language. There are many bugs to come just like this.
Using a memory safe language is not a silver bullet for writing memory safe code. The implementation of the memory safe language introduces bugs as well.