Memory Safety
3 posts
Rust Lifetimes Scare Away 90% of Programmers? One Library Analogy Gets You There in Seconds
Compiler errors got you running? Relax. Rust lifetimes aren’t scary monsters—they’re invisible guardians ensuring your code never crashes. This 5-minute guide beats the official docs.
Rust unsafe isn’t a toy — it’s a blood oath: 6 YOLO mistakes that will blow up your code
Don’t treat unsafe like a get-out-of-jail-free card. With practical examples, this article dissects 6 common unsafe pitfalls: silencing the compiler with duct tape, dereferencing random raw pointers, violating borrow rules inside unsafe, reinventing wheels, abusing unsafe impl, and skipping Safety comments — helping you build the right risk mindset and usage patterns.
Why Rust Makes C++ Programmers Lose Sleep at Night: Lessons from My Migration Journey
A C++ developer with 5 years of experience shares real insights from switching to Rust. From memory safety to concurrency, these 10 features completely changed my perspective on systems programming