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Its interesting to me how everyone goes to "memory leaks" as their example of memory unsafety, and then if we're talking about Rust we need to clarify that Rust allows leaks (but it makes them hard to do by accident). I guess mnemonically "memory leak" is easier to bring to mind than "dangling pointer" when talking about memory.



It's also funny because memory leaks literally aren't a memory safety issue. If they were, every garbage collected language would be memory-unsafe.




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