To be clear Rust will give you a clean exit in this situation (or at least, I assume that to be true, it would be a glaring issue if it didn't). On linux howeve

To be clear Rust will give you a clean exit in this situation (or at least, I assume that to be true, it would be a glaring issue if it didn't). On linux however since malloc usually can't fail you won't ever see that since the kernel will realize the issue on access and not on alloc, then the OOM killer will play russian roulette with your processes.