This is not the first soundness bug. Some bugs aren't fixed for years. The Rust community is well aware that such bugs exist, will be found, and address them just like other high impact bugs. In other words, if you paid the slightest attention to the development of Rust language, you would know this is surprising but not unexpected, and has happened many times.
Given that TFA is currently #1 on HN, I suspect I'm not the only person who is aware of Rust's borrow checker but not aware, until now, that it has a history of serious soundness bugs.
This is not even the first soundness bug that appeared on HN frontpage. It just means you don't pay attention to Rust development, that's it. I don't even use Rust at all yet I know a number of quirks about its compiler.
"Serious" soundness bugs? That's a stronger claim, and one that you introduced. So you have the burden of proof. Which of those soundness bugs are serious, and what about them makes them so?
This is not the first soundness bug. Some bugs aren't fixed for years. The Rust community is well aware that such bugs exist, will be found, and address them just like other high impact bugs. In other words, if you paid the slightest attention to the development of Rust language, you would know this is surprising but not unexpected, and has happened many times.
Given that TFA is currently #1 on HN, I suspect I'm not the only person who is aware of Rust's borrow checker but not aware, until now, that it has a history of serious soundness bugs.
> I'm not the only person who ...
This is not even the first soundness bug that appeared on HN frontpage. It just means you don't pay attention to Rust development, that's it. I don't even use Rust at all yet I know a number of quirks about its compiler.
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Well, it has a history of soundness bugs.
"Serious" soundness bugs? That's a stronger claim, and one that you introduced. So you have the burden of proof. Which of those soundness bugs are serious, and what about them makes them so?
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The reason it's #1 is because this bug is so simple to trigger.
People in sugar glass houses shouldn't throw stones :P
You got my upvote and this one decade old issue:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/25860
Is this the one exploited in cve-rs?
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You got my upvote.
And I laugh at downvoters.