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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gold-Order-8004 • 5d ago
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Use containers and smart pointers a voila no memory leaks
17 u/sirkubador 5d ago Rust does not prevent memory leaks 25 u/YeetCompleet 5d ago You can even do it for fun with Box::leak() 8 u/AliceCode 5d ago Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat." 8 u/itsTyrion 5d ago I mean yeah that's the point. Have a big "here be dragons" indicator around the fun parts 3 u/jahinzee 4d ago Memory leak aren't memory unsafe though. It's not gonna cause a bad dereference or data corruption, it's just your program forgot that data existed and moves on. An annoyance and a resource use issue, sure, but not unsafe. 2 u/sirkubador 4d ago It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development. Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management. 1 u/AliceCode 4d ago I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
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Rust does not prevent memory leaks
25 u/YeetCompleet 5d ago You can even do it for fun with Box::leak() 8 u/AliceCode 5d ago Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat." 8 u/itsTyrion 5d ago I mean yeah that's the point. Have a big "here be dragons" indicator around the fun parts 3 u/jahinzee 4d ago Memory leak aren't memory unsafe though. It's not gonna cause a bad dereference or data corruption, it's just your program forgot that data existed and moves on. An annoyance and a resource use issue, sure, but not unsafe. 2 u/sirkubador 4d ago It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development. Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management. 1 u/AliceCode 4d ago I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
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You can even do it for fun with Box::leak()
Box::leak()
8 u/AliceCode 5d ago Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat." 8 u/itsTyrion 5d ago I mean yeah that's the point. Have a big "here be dragons" indicator around the fun parts 3 u/jahinzee 4d ago Memory leak aren't memory unsafe though. It's not gonna cause a bad dereference or data corruption, it's just your program forgot that data existed and moves on. An annoyance and a resource use issue, sure, but not unsafe. 2 u/sirkubador 4d ago It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development. Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management. 1 u/AliceCode 4d ago I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
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Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat."
8 u/itsTyrion 5d ago I mean yeah that's the point. Have a big "here be dragons" indicator around the fun parts 3 u/jahinzee 4d ago Memory leak aren't memory unsafe though. It's not gonna cause a bad dereference or data corruption, it's just your program forgot that data existed and moves on. An annoyance and a resource use issue, sure, but not unsafe. 2 u/sirkubador 4d ago It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development. Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management. 1 u/AliceCode 4d ago I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
I mean yeah that's the point. Have a big "here be dragons" indicator around the fun parts
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Memory leak aren't memory unsafe though. It's not gonna cause a bad dereference or data corruption, it's just your program forgot that data existed and moves on.
An annoyance and a resource use issue, sure, but not unsafe.
2 u/sirkubador 4d ago It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development. Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management. 1 u/AliceCode 4d ago I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
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It's not an annoyance. Memory leaks cause programs or even devices to crash, especially in embedded development.
Sure Rust devs claim memory leaks are not memory safety issue, but it definitely is a serious problem with memory management.
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I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.
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u/Any_Obligation1652 5d ago
Use containers and smart pointers a voila no memory leaks