Why Rust and Its Memory Safety Lulls Developers Into a False Sense of Security, Leading to More Serious Bugs

from blog The Angry Dev, | ↗ original
Rust has garnered significant attention in the programming world for its focus on memory safety without the need for a garbage collector, making it an appealing option for systems programming, where safety and performance are both critical. By preventing entire categories of bugs like data races, buffer overflows, and null pointer dereferencing...