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Broadly speaking, C is the king of running wrong without crashing, so no.

The borrow checker isn't really making anything worse, it's just failing to save you from this particular problem. In C you could still write the exact same bug, or you could even write it with actual pointers. I gather a lot of browser exploits start that way these days.




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