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> the MacRumors home page crashed after some scrolling

I know there’s a ton going on, with GPUs and rendering and all kinds of things, but I guess because Rust’s memory safety and “no null pointers!” are so constantly hyped (especially in conversations about Go), that I’m always surprised when you fire up a Rust app and do something and it crashes out…

[To be clear, I’m a big fan of modern sum types, and like to imagine an alternate reality where Go had them from the start…]



When they say "it crashed" they probably mean it panicked or just failed to render; not a segfault.

Most languages have a way of saying "I haven't handled this case yet; just exit the program if you get here".


Rust also doesn’t consider DOS a failure condition.

Reading an invalid index, thats a panic.


It can also get oomkilled




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