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minus-squareonlinepersonalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down2·2 months ago C++ might not be as memory-safe as Rust, but let’s not pretend a Rust code base wouldn’t be riddled with raw pointers. I’m curious. Why do you believe the last statement to be true? Anti Commercial-AI license
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI don’t know if it’s riddled with it or not, but what I (think to) know is that one of Rust’s goal is to minimize them. No need for raw pointers when handling lists and buffers most of the time.
I’m curious. Why do you believe the last statement to be true?
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I don’t know if it’s riddled with it or not, but what I (think to) know is that one of Rust’s goal is to minimize them. No need for raw pointers when handling lists and buffers most of the time.