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I had no idea, that is wild, especially considering how everyone has been outcrying "Rust is safe". Thanks for the info though.

One should wonder what else is there... but they do not wonder, they are sadly rigid with their thinking that Rust is the perfect memory safe language with zero runtime overhead.



It's not real unsoundness because it only applies within the private implementation details of Vec<T> - you still can't cause UB from outside code. But it's a real oversight that only proves how hard writing unsafe code is.


You know you can discuss languages without the weird emotional labeling from your last paragraph, right?

Plenty of people wonder. It’s part of building the language.


Fair enough.




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