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RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
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RustConf 2020 closing keynote by Sian Griffin that dives into Pokemon Blue glitches, notably Missingno and arbitrary-code-execution tricks. It uses them to explain how memory unsafety works and how memory-safe languages like Rust prevent such bugs.
HN points to it as a fun, technically deep talk that makes memory-safety bugs vivid through a beloved game.
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