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Episode 490: Tim McNamara on Rust 2021 Edition

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Rust can guarantee exactly when it is safe to access values and to modify them, without needing to add extra locking mechanisms. One thing that russ doesn't guarantee is that your programm will be free of memory leags. If you were to kind of go under its back and re implement some of the functionality that's provided in the standard library, for example, then you could leak memory deliberately. Rust will get very, very particular, very stroppy with you in as politey as possible if you attempt to excess. Shall beliberlor precise what they yi mean by excess? Multiple readers is fine, but there can only ever be one place in your programme that has right access to

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