2 HN users recommended this talk2 months2020–2022score 2.5
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
HN points to it as a fun, technically deep talk that makes memory-safety bugs vivid through a beloved game.
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.
“I really enjoyed the RustConf 2020 Closing Keynote” (HN, 2020)
I loved the in-depth technical discussion in this video. If you're into this sort of thing, I highly recommend this pokemon/missingno discussion: [this video]
In-depth technical discussion of Pokemon Missingno glitch.
I really enjoyed the RustConf 2020 Closing Keynote: [this video] It details how the Poikemon missingo glitches work. (In the context of how memory safe languages would prevent them)
Explains Missingno glitches and how memory-safe languages prevent them.
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