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		pizza234 44 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zig and the design choices within > Rust spends almost all of its complexity on eliminating weaknesses that don't even make the top 5 in either list Uh? Number 2 in CWE is an out-of-bounds write, and the same vulnerability is number 1 in the KEV list.

pron 44 days ago [–]

That falls into "spatial" memory safety, which Zig also provides. Rust's ownership and lifetime - the core of its design - go into eliminating use-after-free, aka "temporal" memory safety.

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