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At least if I'm understanding things correctly, I don't think that that invariant is something that locks can protect in general. I can't say I'm familiar enough with the code to say whether some other code organization would have eliminated the need for the unsafe block in this specific case.
[0]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/3e0ae02ba831da2b70790...
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6 days ago: Their experience with Rust was positive for all the commonly cited reasons - if it compiles it works
8 days ago: I have to debug Rust code waaaay less than C, for two reasons: (2) Stronger type system - you get an "if it compiles it works" kind of experience
4 months ago: I've been writing Rust code for a while and generally if it compiles, it works.
5 months ago: If it’s Rust, I can just do stuff and I’ve never broken anything. Unit tests of business logic are all the QA I need. Other than that, if it compiles it works.
9 months ago: But even on a basic level Rust has that "if it compiles it works" experience which Go definitely doesn't.
Some people claim that the quote is hyperbolic because it only covers memory errors. But this bug is a memory error, so ...
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