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		aw1621107 5 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Zig felt like, coming from Rust > Also, Zig's spatial and memory safety is as good as Rust's Is there a word missing before "memory"? Seems odd to specifically call out spatial memory safety when memory safety subsumes it.
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ngrilly 5 days ago | [–]

That's because Zig offers spatial memory safety (e.g. buffer overflows and index out of bounds), but no temporal memory safety (e.g. use-after-free). I suppose the "and" before "memory safety" is a typo.

pron 5 days ago | | [–]

sorry, the "and" was a typo

steveklabnik 5 days ago | [–]

Usually people say “spatial” vs “temporal”.

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