Jenny1975

Legacy code and inexperience with new technologies are not problems that are unique to Rust and the Rust compiler. And presumably Rust will continue to evolve, will it not? If my team starts a large, multi-year project using Rust 1.1 today, does Rust offer anything that will help us avoid the sorts of crashes that the Rust compiler suffers from?

I've seen this complaint about the Rust compiler a number of times now, here and at other sites. Isn't one of the main selling points of Rust that it's supposed to make it much harder to write code that crashes? It is my understanding that the Rust compiler is mostly written in Rust. While maybe these ICEs aren't traditional segfaults that can be exploited, they're still unexpected crashes none the less! The software stops working without warning. If the best Rust experts around have so much trouble avoiding those kinds of crashes, then how is an average Rust user, or even a complete beginner like me, supposed to write Rust code that's any less susceptible to crashing?