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by winterlights 224 days ago
The whole discussion sucks, because Rust is not memory safe, and can easily be worse than C and C++ regarding memory safety. Memory unsafety is entirely possible in Rust[0].

[0]: https://materialize.com/blog/rust-concurrency-bug-unbounded-...
2 comments
yencabulator 212 days ago
Looks like unsafe code doing the actual freeing.. unsafe Rust has never been claimed to be memory safe.
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Yoric 224 days ago
Not sure where that comes from. We're not even discussing Rust in this thread.
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