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[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Boone? There are plenty of fan boys out there that are selling rust like AI, or in other words snake oil.

Rust obviously has built in securities that C doesn't have, but a shitty coder is a shitty coder and bad QC is bad QC. Now we're seeing the reality of the consequences.

Rust and/or other memory safe(r) languages are like the future, but hopefully more people are now seeing the cracks. Just look at cloudflare for a prime example.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

the cloudflare issues were configuration… they have nothing even remotely relayed to any of this

[–] PushButton@lemmy.world 0 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 8 points 12 hours ago

The software had a limit on the size of the feature file that was below its doubled size. That caused the software to fail.

this is not a rust problem… nor was the original problem of code writing entries to a file multiple times, and nor is the thing that made it worse: propagation of the poisoned file