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A panic is a different kind of crash than a segfault, it can not be used to get your credit card information.

• sitkack 5y ago
  And there is a stack trace. Worlds apart.
  • eatonphil 5y ago
    Well stack traces are just a gdb session away, no changes to code/binary needed. No?
    • lanstin 5y ago
      But most crashes can be turned into an exploit.
      • eatonphil 5y ago
        I was just responding to the stack traces bit, no argument about the exploit potential.
    • sitkack 5y ago
      Not all crashes in C or C++ can give you a meaningful stack trace. Lots of time there is heap corruption, or stack corruption. Safe Rust has the same properties as a managed language, one is going to spend an order of magnitude less time hunting for bugs.
      • eatonphil 5y ago
        Gotcha, thanks for clarifying!
        • sitkack 5y ago
          I should have elaborated in my original comment. Next time!
    • 3836293648 5y ago
      Panics are usually at or close to the root of the bug. Segfaults can be anywhere later in the program
• xyproto 5y ago
  Sure, but that is not a worry I have when I launch Neovim.