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minus-squareUnkend@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·1 year agoYou can do dumb stuff with Rust as well.
minus-squareAggressivelyPassive@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up52arrow-down2·1 year agoBut it’s harder and easier to spot. You’ll never be 100% safe, but a proper lock is better than a “plz no steal” note.
minus-squarebaseless_discourse@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoYes, it was just discovered on this year’s POPL that rust’s type system is not sound with respect to deadlock freedom. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571229 (of course this is not arguing that everyone should stay on C or CPP, just confirming the point that Rust will allow stupid things.
minus-squarelloram239@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-210 months agodeleted by creator
You can do dumb stuff with Rust as well.
But it’s harder and easier to spot.
You’ll never be 100% safe, but a proper lock is better than a “plz no steal” note.
Yes, it was just discovered on this year’s POPL that rust’s type system is not sound with respect to deadlock freedom.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3571229
(of course this is not arguing that everyone should stay on C or CPP, just confirming the point that Rust will allow stupid things.
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