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by dnautics 42 days ago
rust does not promise leak safety.
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josephg 41 days ago
True. But rust does make it a lot harder to leak memory by accident. Rust variables are automatically freed when they go out of scope. Ownership semantics mean the compiler knows when to free almost everything.
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ethin 41 days ago
> But rust does make it a lot harder to leak memory by accident. Rust variables are automatically freed when they go out of scope.

RAII has entered the chat.

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