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Rust for Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset

Rustacean Station

CHAPTER

Segfaults - Why You Shouldn't Be Concerned

There's a lot of people in uh in Hong Kong where i am that really love go and push it in a little bit dismissive of rust. I'm not actually that concerned about segfaults um because segfault means that your program stopped running what i'm concerned about is incorrect behavior but your program kept running those are the scary cases right like if you have a mutex that's separate from the data well if you forget to take the lock but you still access the data that value may end up getting corrupted imagine that value is someone's bank balance this is a huge problem. Those are some of the reasons why i think it's so important to handle as much safety as you

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