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> Rust would not have failed to compile at step one necessarily. True. In this case there was old code and new code. I assumed in a hypothetical hybrid Rust codebase, bindgen would…

> My point was that data can be corrupted due to logic bugs as well For sure. But in the 10+ years I worked on Office, I spent far more time per UB bug than logic bugs. 1 UB bug co…

> it's worth thinking about whether it's worth it. Totally agree we need to evaluate the trade offs of various paradigms. But, I think the most important aspect to understand is th…

IIRC, that specific bug was due to a few issues: 1. Mismatched type definitions in different translation units caused an implicit 32 to 16 bit conversion. 2. An addition to the 16 …

> Users don't care if you wrote it in Rust Totally agree! But they do care if Word corrupts a document that’s been open for 10 days (a bug that a principal engineer spent many, man…

I’m curious why we see so many papers and discussions about the difficulty in writing Rust relative to other languages. I would like to see more analyses of total cost of ownership…

I totally agree with the author’s summary: > That trepidation and sinking feeling of “What are they going to break this time?” every time the WWDC’s date approaches, has been weari…

I worked on Word for years. Office has thousands of files over 10,000 lines with, uh, various degrees of test coverage and comprehensibility. After some time and experience, your m…