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by stefs 960 days ago
> Is there something to this Rust language which magically eliminates all chances of any bug being introduced?

no, altough it has features that prevent or reduce the probability of some types of bugs - one example of this being memory safety bugs. rust can't prevent logic bugs.

the rust reimplementation probably has more bugs than the original, but a theoretically better chance to achieve fewer bugs in the long run.

is rewriting mature linux infrastructure in rust a good idea? many people agree that no, it's probably not a good idea outside of special use cases.