cm0002@lemdro.id to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 5 days agoRust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibilitywww.phoronix.comexternal-linkmessage-square15linkfedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down14cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.ml
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minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down13·5 days agobut I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?
minus-squareTwilightKiddy@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·5 days agoSafe? Eh, may be. Bug proof? You need a bug proof brain first.
minus-squarefif-t@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 days agoFar from bug proof. You can write as many logic bugs as you want (as that’s what happened here), but it’ll save you from a common class of potentially devastating memory safety and data race bugs in safe Rust.
minus-squareZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoIt’s as bug proof and safe as the developers using the language.
but I thought rust was bug proof and completely safe?
Safe? Eh, may be. Bug proof? You need a bug proof brain first.
Far from bug proof. You can write as many logic bugs as you want (as that’s what happened here), but it’ll save you from a common class of potentially devastating memory safety and data race bugs in safe Rust.
It’s as bug proof and safe as the developers using the language.