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The big one is memory leaks. People also assume “race conditions” instead of “data races.”


Thanks for the info. I need to look up the latter point, the difference between the two. Saw it mentioned in an article or book about Go too.

Looked it up, found these links, for anyone interested:

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/490

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11276259/are-data-races-...


Any time! And yeah, those links are excellent.


Cool, good to know :)


FWIW, Rust does help with both of those, but it doesn't resolve them entirely. This is nitpicking slightly but the original comment did say 'help'.


Fair!




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