Rust, sloppiness, and gatekeeping

[phaylon]

@chrefr

You mean on the stack or heap? Because a Drop impl that allocates on the heap is pretty... unusual, to say the least (though it definitely can happen).

There is more discussion here.

@chrefr

It should mostly work, as long as you use the 2015 edition and turn off some lints (there were some breaking changes, but they shouldn't affect the vast majority of code).

In general I'd expect it to work, yes. And the Rust project puts a lot of energy into making it as low-effort and as easy to fix as possible in the rare case when it happens. But it's not guaranteed. The expectation that it won't happen ever is incorrect.