• arendjr@programming.devOP
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    8 hours ago

    Using smart pointers doesn’t eliminate the memory safety issue, it merely addresses one aspect of it. Even with smart pointers, nothing is preventing you from passing references and using them after they’re freed.

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      7 hours ago

      To be fair, it’s entirely possible to make the same and very similar mistakes in Rust, too.

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        I’m fairly sure use after free isn’t possible unless you explicitly use unsafe code right?

        It’s compiler enforced is the point.