[pjmlp]

Understood by most on the Rust community, not by others.

Most outside of the community aren't aware that nomicon points out exactly this.

By the way, there are also ways to cause havoc within a single program, example using a file as backing store being accessed by multiple threads concurrently, or accessing database data without transactions.

My goal is not to bash Rust, rather to trigger discussions around these kind of problems.

[noctune]

Both those situations are race conditions, but neither are data races. Rust only prevents data races, which is a specific kind of race condition, but it does not prevent race conditions in general.

[pjmlp]

It is the "in general" I care about and think it gets too little discussion on the community, because just like some RIR threads, the details get lost in the discussion.