“Mozilla could have achieved 90% of what it wanted from a rust rewrite with a modern C++11 rewrite at a quarter of the cost.” #shithnsays
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At some point in the 90s people started informally treating the term “memory leak” interchangeably with “memory safety problem” and I think that caused a lot of misconceptions.
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I've always been surprised how many people describe Valgrind as a memory leak detector. Sure, it does leak detection, but that's one of the least interesting things it does.
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Hot take: Preventing leaks worsens memory safety. Every leak is a missed UAF.
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