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Comment by surajrmal

> Rust being advertised as a safe language (which is true) got so much into the user's heads that they think if they write it in Rust it's safe and crash free by default. There are plenty of security/safety bugs that aren't about dereferencing a null or accessing invalid ptr.

> No cynicism intended, just an observation from what I see around.

The difference is what happens when a bug is encountered. If it is caught and panicked upon, then that is safe predictible behavior that cannot be exploited into something like privilege escallation.

parent surajrmal 8 years ago

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