alt Hacker NewsIt's the difference between trying to learn the language and trying to learn the implementation details of a library. Is the kind of crazy hack that Rust std uses to prevent TOCTOU attacks with symlinks a language complexity issue or not?
I suppose you can add features to the language and then tell people to avoid learning them.
> Is the kind of crazy hack that Rust std uses to prevent TOCTOU attacks with symlinks a language complexity issue or not?
I have no clue what you're talking about and I doubt that it's relevant.
The claim was made that this is "simple". It doesn't feel simple to me. I'm asking about the criteria used and how this fits into that to justify the "simple" claim.
The implementation details of this construct are implementation details of the language.