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For those wondering about segfaults specifically in Rust (I know it's not the point of the blog post but it might be interesting to others), this thread talks about why they occur/whether they'll ever be eliminated entirely:

https://users.rust-lang.org/t/rust-guarantees-no-segfaults-w...

One small update to that thread: hitting the guard page no longer sends SIGSEV, but SIGILL: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/31333

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