It seems like it is true and accurate to say that Rust prevents “whole classes of bugs”. It is obvious that other bugs can still exist. Otherwise people would say Rust prevents “all bugs”.
Are you disappointed that Rust evangelists don’t spend time talking about the fact that bugs can exist in Rust programs? Did you see the two articles posted in the last week alone about bugs that were found in Rust code? They reached the front page of HN
Are you disappointed that Rust evangelists don’t spend time talking about the fact that bugs can exist in Rust programs? Did you see the two articles posted in the last week alone about bugs that were found in Rust code? They reached the front page of HN
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/everything-is-broken-shipp...
- https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/06/fuzzing-rust-minidump-for-...
If you want to see criticism of Rust, I’ve found that the most informed criticism comes from people who use Rust a lot. Example - https://matklad.github.io/2020/09/20/why-not-rust.html