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by emn13 243 days ago
I mean, reliably tracking ownership and therefore knowing that e.g. an aliased write must complete before a read is surely helpful?

It won't prevent all races, but it might help avoid mistakes in a few of em. And concurrency is such a pain; any such machine-checked guarantees are probably nice to have to those dealing with em - caveat being that I'm not such a person.