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16 November 2025

  • curprev 07:2507:25, 16 November 2025 PC talk contribs 8,144 bytes +8,144 Created page with "Introduction — The Debugger That Thinks Like the Compiler Rust doesn’t let you “wing it” with memory. It’s strict, almost annoyingly so — but for good reason. You might have heard of Miri, the mysterious tool that catches undefined behavior before your program ever runs natively. But what is Miri, really?
It’s not a debugger. It’s not a linter. It’s something deeper — a virtual interpreter for Rust’s mid-level intermediate representation (MIR)..."