Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDBM Database

Re:Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDB... by alfiedotwtf on Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:15PM (#8749395)

So say we all.

> but eliminate many very painful bug opportunities that require tools like Valgrind to debug.

That's an understatement. Rust won't just eliminate many very painful bugs, but probably the most common class of errors too!

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Re:Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDB... by baq on Sunday December 14, 2014 @03:22PM (#8749421)

Rust is awesome, but coming from usual languages is... frustrating. You need to internalize that the compiler _really_ knows better what's safe and what isn't and it takes a while.

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Re:Using Rust to Make a Safer Interface for Yahoo’s Fast MDB... by dmix on Sunday December 14, 2014 @08:05PM (#8750226)

Yep also the type system is very unforgiving but probably by design.

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