Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look

Re:Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look by comex on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:41PM (#9220742)

If you're worried about memory leaks, an obvious downside of Rust is that it encourages reference counting over GC (more accurately: has no GC, but that might change in the future), and reference counting can leak via cycles.

However, in practice most values can be neither Rc nor Gc but single-owner, like unique_ptr in C++, which is easier to reason about than either.

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Re:Would Rust have prevented Heartbleed? Another look by steveklabnik on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @03:54PM (#9220870)

Yes, it's important to note that Rust isn't 'refcounting but not GC,' but single ownership + borrowing over all else, and then using refcounting if you find yourself in a situation where you need multiple ownership.

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