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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by kiri@ani.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 
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[–] LaggyKar@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This is something that Rust is specifically designed to prevent.

[–] kiri@ani.social 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are C++ analyzers like this which are also designed to prevent it (if you have no choice between languages).

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've seen things like this posted several times on here. It always turns out it doesn't actually catch all the possible problems, or it's garbage collected, or it's non-usable for real code.

If it was that easy, the people who wrote Rust with all it's complexity and divergence from the norm were idiots, and I really don't think they were.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago

C/C++ is mildly obsolete now, basically. Breaking the memory model is not really a small defect that's a matter of taste.