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11-year-old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Original: 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker
Developers have reported long-standing unsoundness bugs in Rust's borrow checker, with a new GitHub issue noting the flaws have existed for around 11 years. The discussion centers on how the bugs could allow code to circumvent Rust's memory-safety guarantees in certain cases. Programmers are debating the implications for a language whose core promise is compile-time safety, and how such bugs survived undetected for so long.
Why now: Rust's reputation rests on memory safety, so discovering decade-old soundness holes in its borrow checker is striking to developers.
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