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Pokémon Glitches Explain Memory Safety and Rust

Rust Programming Language · Talk · 39 min · 2020 · YouTube title: RustConf 2020 - Closing Keynote by Siân Griffin
Why it's here

HN points to it as a fun, technically deep talk that makes memory-safety bugs vivid through a beloved game.

What it covers

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.