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lfairy

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    Comment #29063352

    BTW, this article explains how Rust releases work: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-07-nightly-rust.html It's a release train, similar to that used by Chromium and Firefox. …

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    Comment #29063322

    > By the way the difference is that Rust is not a standard, thus is easier to evolve (the process is much shorter). Another thing is ABI. C and C++ are ABI-stable, which means that…

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    Comment #27538863

    I think it's less "passion" and "focus", more his position as the Linux lead giving him first-hand experience with change control at scale. He didn't need a product manager to gath…

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    Comment #26453501

    So you're saying that Haskell's memory safety is meaningless too, because parts of its stdlib and runtime are written in C?

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    Comment #25965915

    Yeah, Rust is about the simplest language that guarantees both memory safety + low-level control. Almost all of its complexity comes from having to satisfy both.

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    Comment #24563670

    I might be biased, as I'm the engineer that you're talking about, but that characterization feels unfair. Context-aware escaping is by no means common in the open source world—just…

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    Comment #24563569

    The API in question is stable now, so that will change very soon: https://github.com/lambda-fairy/maud/milestone/1

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    Comment #24563366

    Author here. Yeah, that FAQ was written a few years ago and my opinions have changed since then. I'd also like to emphasize that no Rust template engine – that I'm aware of – does …

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    Comment #14086110

    For the uninitiated: Google dedicates a whole cluster of machines to finding memory safety bugs in Chrome. Finding segfaults is part of their work flow. https://dev.chromium.org/Ho…