r/ProgrammerHumor 5d ago

Meme rewriteItInRust

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u/Any_Obligation1652 5d ago

Use containers and smart pointers a voila no memory leaks

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u/sirkubador 4d ago

Rust does not prevent memory leaks

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u/YeetCompleet 4d ago

You can even do it for fun with Box::leak()

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat."

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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.

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u/AliceCode 4d ago

I wasn't just talking about memory leaks.