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0 pointsPeCaN9y ago0 comments

Exactly. Compiler-enforced ownership and lifetimes _dramatically_ reduces the mental overhead of memory management compared to C. It also saves time from having to run things under Valgrind and ASAN just to make sure I didn't mess up. The extra time spent getting Rust code to compile is considerably shorter than the time required to debug something Valgrind found.

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kylebgorman9y ago

I feel the same way about C++ smart pointers, which are remarkably simple to use and understand.

catnaroek9y ago

While definitely an improvement over raw pointers, ultimately C++'s smart pointers still fall short in several ways: they can be null, there's no lifetime checking for references (so you can still use after free), there's no object freezing (so you can still have data races), etc.

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kylebgorman9y ago

I feel the same way about C++ smart pointers, which are remarkably simple to use and understand.

catnaroek9y ago

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