• bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9 months

    What is the fascination with talking about rust and showing things with rust on it?

    • tuckerm@feddit.onlineEnglish
      9 months

      I mean, a rusty USB port is pretty on-point here. It’s not often that the perfect stock photo pun exists, you have to take it when you get the chance.

    • deltapi@lemmy.world
      9 months

      Well, the big claim is that it is memory-safe. This means that things like null pointer references, double-free errors, and use-after-free errors shouldn’t be possible.
      There’s a ton of reading to be done if you’re interested, just search “rust memory safety” for a start.

    • calliope@retrolemmy.com
      9 months

      The photos having rust on them are because the authors are quite lazy and they need an image.

      So they just look for copyright-free images of a rusty USB and they’re all set.