TWiR quote of the week

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"self own" sounds like a rust thing

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i think that's what you get when you leak memory through circular refcounts

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This is missing a source link, so I cannot include it.

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Due to subtle reasons™ we believe this to not be an exploitable soundness issue.

-- lcnr on the Inside Rust blog

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This must be one of the earliest quotes about Rust, because it was first thought before Rust even existed.

It's ridiculous that we computer people couldn't even make an elevator that works without crashing!

From How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language.

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Memory-safe implementations of PNG (png, zune-png, wuffs) now dramatically outperform memory-unsafe ones (libpng, spng, stb_image) when decoding images.

Rust png crate that tops our benchmark shows 1.8x improvement over libpng on x86 and 1.5x improvement on ARM.

Shnatsel, in a reddit post.

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