Where your Solana / Rust bug gets caught:
trusted types → in your editor
const asserts/lints → when you compile
pinning tests → when you run tests
runtime checks → in production ... hopefully
Move everything you can up the list.
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Most Solana programs are one typo - or one agent mistake - away from disaster.
Security pros warned us 5 years ago to not do this, but everybody does it. Examples do it. Agents do it. Auditors clear it. Millions drain.
fn withdraw(...) -> Result {
if record.owner != *user.key {
return Err(IllegalOwner);
}
if amount > record.quote {
return Err(InsufficientFunds);
}
// more `if`s here - hope we have enough!
record.quote -= amount;
transfer_out(destination, amount)
}
For both safety and performance, it's time to learn from decades of critical systems engineering, embrace the strength of Rust, and "Parse, Don't Validate." Runtime checks don't belong in a program's internals. They belong at the boundaries.
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