Comment by cute_boi
11 hours ago
I am okay if agents can write code that is very safe in ASM. I am sure code written in Rust are naturally safe compared to asm or c. Waiting for tsasm to be significantly faster and safer than tsrs.
11 hours ago
I am okay if agents can write code that is very safe in ASM. I am sure code written in Rust are naturally safe compared to asm or c. Waiting for tsasm to be significantly faster and safer than tsrs.
I'm pretty sure a program written in asm by agents will not only be very unsafe, but also very slow compared to Rust, or even Go or Java.
People massively overestimate Rust's "safety" - it has a very nice approach to managing data races, and. that's it.
It still, like every other language/tool we have that shares state between threads, has race conditions, for example.
Borrow checker aside, I would like to think that its type system inherently makes it safer than a language like C.
Even Modula-2 (1978) type system is safer than C.
You can write bad unsafe code in any language. Rust has a convenient keyword for that. C++ has types.
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That is a confidently incorrect assertion.
They said race conditions and specifically exempted data races. You can absolutely write race conditions in rust, they're a logic bug.
As an example, let's say you have two functions A and B. A only works properly if B has never ran for some reason. Let's say they both accept a reference to a value C, and B changes C's value somehow. Because this is rust, we can't have data races, so we wrap it in an ArcMutex or what have you. That doesn't impact the ordering of A and B at all.
If we spawn threads that execute A and B at the same time, it's up to the scheduler if A functions properly.
You are being downvoted but you are absolutely correct. I have never seen someone assert Rust is a 100% safe. Its touted purely as a _memory_ safe language. To claim otherwise is absurd and very telling of the writer's biases
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