Comment by tialaramex

> Data races have obvious real world analogues

No they don't, as you handily illustrated by offering no actual data race analogies but instead managing to confuse loss of atomicity with a data race. It's OK though, so long as you write only safe Rust you can't blow your own foot off even though you didn't understand how the explosives work.

And actually people write other race conditions all the time, particularly ToCToU races are very common, and as I explained Rust doesn't prevent those - although a Rust library you're using might go out of its way to be friendly by directing you away from them as Rust's own file system stdlib functions do.