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Re:The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft by frankmcsherry on Friday July 31, 2015 @10:57AM (#9982143)
> "Rust can leak memory" is an overgeneralization of the issue and misrepresents it.

I thought it was the exactly correct response to a comment that says Rust's main feature is that it doesn't let you leak memory. =/

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Re:The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft by Manishearth on Friday July 31, 2015 @01:56PM (#9983203)
It was in response to a comment that said that ownership helps deterministically close files, etc. In that context, the leakocalypse doesn't really apply.

Yes, the RAII part of ownership isn't the main feature. No, the leakocalypse is not as simple as "Rust lets you leak things"

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