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		bpye on June 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Program... I was thinking about C and C++ and whilst they allow you to be very careful about allocations, they also give you every opportunity to get it wrong.

ncmncm on June 3, 2022 [–]

We need not act on the opportunity.

All that is actually needed is for it to be more work to get it wrong than to get it right.

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