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ViewTrick1002 • today at 12:32 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

For everyone unaware, this repo is a meme:

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0kvn1/corroded_upda...

As a follow on to the corroded meme crate:

https://github.com/buyukakyuz/corroded

> What Is This

> The rust compiler thinks it knows better than you. It won't let you have two pointers to the same thing. It treats you like a mass of incompetence that can't be trusted with a pointer.

> We fix that.

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amluto • today at 1:32 PM

It does seem like satire. The very first example is:

    fn main() {
        let a = String::from("hello");
        let b = a;
        println!("{a}");  // Works! Prints: hello
    }
This is not “I have correct code but Rust can’t tell it’s correct.” This is “wow, this code is intentionally outrageously wrong, obviously dereferences a pointer that is invalid, and happens to work anyway.”