Comment on How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare

• Mechanize@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You can leak data in perfectly safe Rust, because it is not a bug per se, an example is by using Box::leak

  Preventing memory leaks was never in the intentions of Rust. What it tries to safeguard you from are Memory Safety bugs like the infamous and common double free.

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  • 8uurg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And it still cleans up once the ownership model indicates it can be cleaned up. That does not ensure memory is never leaked, but it is equivalent to destructors running automatically when using unique ptr or shared ptr without cycles in C++, which avoids at least a portion of possible memory leaks.

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