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It's funny, since many of today's software bugs are due to the legacy of C, faults of which can often times be attributed to mimicking the behaviour CPU hardware too closely.

EDIT: My wording was poor, but what I meant was that it's not like hardware vendors do not make bugs happen due to deficiencies in their design, which are not only tolerated, but often reflected in software, which runs counter to OP saying that apparently hardware vendors are not allowed to have bugs, but the software ones are:

> So it's okay for software to have bugs that get fixed (I think everybody here acknowledges that software will always have bugs), but Intel isn't allowed to have issues in their processors




Go back to rust-land now :D


It was meant as a response to OP basically saying that hardware vendors make way fewer bugs that the software ones, which is true, but many bugs of software can arguably be attributed to hardware design, so it's not like they're without fault. Rust has nothing to do with it, not sure why even bring it up.


I get it - sorry, meant to playfully Sunday afternoon troll you.

Ever since I moved from C to Java (I like low level stuff but the company I joined is such) I have been having one of three major problems - logic bugs, too many frameworks, causing bugs due to lack of in depth understanding of each one of them, and GC bottlenecks. Of all of them, I hate the GC ones the most.




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