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"Rust: where resources are unlimited and aborting when you run out of them is okay" I'd change "Rust" to "safe programming" here, but OK. There have been lots
by pcwalton 10y ago
"Rust: where resources are unlimited and aborting when you run out of them is okay"
I'd change "Rust" to "safe programming" here, but OK.
There have been lots of fun security vulnerabilities coming from programs trying to handle OOM gracefully. e.g. SpiderMonkey: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982957 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=982957, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730415 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730415