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Memory Safety is a Red Herring (steveklabnik.com)

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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Okay but I would much rather deal with a defined bug than an undefined one. A defined bug is still a bug, but at least it is predictable. A bug from undefined behaviour is chaos and could do conceivably anything.

A defined bug is at least somewhat limited in what it can do. In Rust, many of those cases would panic for instance. That's much better than, say, continuing execution with garbage data.