[benesch]

> Anecdotally I have had to do this in js a few times. I have never had to do this in Rust. Probably because Rust projects are likely to ship with fewer bugs.

Still anecdotal, but I have worked on a large Rust codebase (Materialize) for six years, worked professionally in JavaScript before that, and I definitely wouldn’t say that Rust projects have fewer bugs than JavaScript projects. Rust projects have plenty of bugs. Just not memory safety bugs—but then you don’t have those in JavaScript either. And with the advent of TypeScript, many JS projects now have all the correctness benefits of using a language with a powerful type system.

We’ve forked dozens of Rust libraries over the years to fix bugs and add missing features. And I’m know individual Materialize developers have had to patch log lines into our dependencies while debugging locally many a time—no record of that makes it into the commit log, though.

[wormlord]

It could be that I just haven't written enough Rust to encounter this issue. Thanks for the insight!