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   Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 22:14:00 JST Brodie Robertson

   Say it with me everyone:

   Rust memory leaks are memory safe

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     Fabio Valentini (decathorpe@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:52:03 JST Fabio Valentini

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     @BrodieOnLinux is this bait? 😅

     While memory leaks are undesirable in almost all cases, they are "safe" - just because they don't cause memory access patterns that are, indeed, "unsafe" (use-after-free, double-free, reading uninitialized memory, unsynchronized read/writes to shared memory, etc.)

     And the quotes around "safe" and "unsafe" are intentional - because those words have specific meaning in the Rust context ... (probably the source of much of the confusion around these terms wrt/ Rust)

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 06:52:03 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Fabio Valentini

     @decathorpe Whenever I talk about a memory leak in COSMIC people always say "But I thought Rust was memory safe"