Bugs Rust Won't Catch | corrode Rust Consulting - Analysis of Rust Coreutils (uutils) Bugs
2026-04-29 10:01 UTC
I’m not writing this to criticize the uutils team. Quite the contrary; I actually want to thank them for sharing the audit results in such detail so that we can all learn from them.
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@trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-29 10:34
This is an excellent article that breaks down common pitfalls and provides really concise rules for according them. It’s a great read if you’re in to systems programming.
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@stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 11:28
As someone who is not at all into programming, this title made me genuinely think I had a stroke.
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@onlinepersona@programming.dev 2026-04-29 10:49
Those are bugs I dont think any programming language catch, unless it’s a DSL for writing such programs on Linux or another OS.
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@doodoo_wizard@lemmy.ml 2026-04-29 18:38
Another stupendous reason to gpl uutils so that the decades of experence of hundreds of system programmers can be leveraged in the rewrite.