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		amcclure 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Rewrote Their Core in Rust, Then Half o... 53 days after Cloudflare announced that their service was now “more secure” because they had ported it to Rust... an error in their Rust code caused a massive outage.

gus_massa 8 days ago [–]

Rust protects you about memory use error, on all the other errors you are on your own. I once wrote

> something_something(a, b, 0)

instead of

> something_something(a, b, 1)

No compiler will detect that. Maybe an AI review, but it was like 10 years ago, before the AI era.

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