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The biggest value of Rust is to avoid heisenbug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug Memory safety and thread safety
by delifue 10mo ago
The biggest value of Rust is to avoid heisenbug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug
Memory safety and thread safety are causes of heisenbugs. However there are other causes. Rust don't catch all heisenbug. But not being perfect doesn't mean it's useless (perfect solution fallacy).
The article has some valid points but is full of ragebait exaggeration.
- fhap 10mo ago> The article has some valid points but is full of ragebait exaggeration. Given that Rust doesn’t always have critiques that are backed with evidence, this wasn’t bad. People can use C now that LLMs make it easier, so Rust is no longer needed in many ways.
- merb 10mo agoYou are joking, right? Writing c with llm‘s… what can go wrong?!
- ameixaseca 10mo ago> Given that Rust doesn’t always have critiques that are backed with evidence, this wasn’t bad. What evidence?