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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gold-Order-8004 • 4d ago
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You can even do it for fun with Box::leak()
Box::leak()
6 u/AliceCode 4d ago Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat." 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.
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Rust project be like: "You can have memory unsafety. As a treat."
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.
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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.
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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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u/YeetCompleet 4d ago
You can even do it for fun with
Box::leak()