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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago

How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare

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How One Uncaught Rust Exception Took Out Cloudflare

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mesa@piefed.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 hours ago
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On November 18 of 2025 a large part of the Internet suddenly cried out and went silent, as Cloudflare’s infrastructure suffered the software equivalent of a cardiac arrest. After much panicke…
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    It’s really hard to do without Rc (or similar) or unsafe.

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      You can leak memory in perfectly safe Rust, because it is not a bug per se, an example is by using Box::leak

      Preventing memory leaks was never in the intentions of Rust. What it tries to safeguard you from are Memory Safety bugs like the infamous and common double free.

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