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by p0nce 1645 days ago
Quoting the article:

> those who [used the GC] required only about a third as much time (4 hours vs. 12 hours).

Surely you can devote a chunk of your newfounded time to find use-after-free bugs.

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If that worked, people wouldn't still be finding use after free bugs in commonly used C libraries. The whole reason to use Rust is that it turns most of C's UB into compile time errors so that your code isn't horribly broken in the first place.
I don't know how to find use-after-free bugs in arbitrary code, no matter how much time I devote to the task. I just can't keep enough state in my head at once.